Andrea G Artz

My work has emerged out of photography’s’ expanded field and incorporates installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, collage and film. I am interested in perception and ways of describing emotions visually, and through installation bring together different mediums to create experience. The works are created for a specific space to incorporate the sense of place; however transient or permanent, it represents this for the moment the visitor is amongst the work.

The human condition and particularly how it is expressed in the human figure is my main interest. Originally trained as a photographer, I am an acute observer of people’s movements, postures, gestures and facial expressions and how they change as history progresses. My work addresses themes like humanness, freedom, limitless possibilities, the expansion of consciousness, and at the same time globalization, displacement, being in exile, impermanence, homelessness, and existential loneliness.

In my recent solo exhibition Farewells, hundreds of three-dimensional cardboard figures of various sizes transform a large space underneath railway arches into a station where people in transit meet. The imagery is based on photographs of commuters taken with my IPhone camera. Th...

Master of Fine Arts, The University of Leeds, 2007 - 2009

BS Studio Art, City University of New York 2004 - 2007

Apprenticeship Certificate Photography
Bavarian Academy for Photography, Munich, 1987 - 1989

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Through Darkness into Light, Crol & Co, London
2017 Farewells, Rottstr5 Kunsthallen, Bochum, Germany
2015 The City of Dreams, Die Bäckerei Innsbruck, Austria
2013 Dickens Locations, Charles Dickens Museum, London
2010 Passengers, First Class Lounge London Euston, London

Group Exhibitions
2017 Sea Road, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
Open Studios, ACME Galleria Court Peckham, London
2016 Open Studios, ACME Galleria Court Peckham, London
East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
A Sense of Place, Observer Building, Hastings
Anti Gallery Show, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
2014 Open Studios, ACME Galleria Court Peckham, London
Spur der Steine, Druckwerkstatt Kulturwerk BBK, Berlin
Family Chronicles, Textil Werk Bocholt, Bocholt, Germany
2013 Creekside Open, A.P.T. Gallery, Deptford, London
2012 12-12-12, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield; Love Pastels, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Peckham Open, Peckham Space, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Re-Sketching Boz, Charles Dickens Museum London
2010 The Summer Exhibition SE1, Vitrine Gallery, London; Silent City, The Rag Factory, London; Between Expression & Actio...