Andrew Hardy

Andrew Hardy is a painter who grew up in Derbyshire and now lives and works in London. Following a long career as a creative director in the retail design industry, working for many of Europe’s leading retailers and retail branding agencies, he now devotes himself full-time to painting. In 2019 he graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, part of the University of the Arts, London, with a BA (Hons) Painting (1st Class). During 2019-20 he had a studio at Turps Art School, London which provides an alternative educational environment at master's degree level for postgraduate painters. His association with Turps Art School continues.

Hardy paints in an abstract language, using abstraction to work through broader questions of materiality, repetition, gesture and chance. When painting, he is occupied with the physicality of the process, connecting with his materials, tools and surfaces in different ways. The process is a form of performance. It is about the act of painting and he sees each finished work as a record of the journey he has been on with it, a record of an experiment or of a line of enquiry. The question of content is not in the foreground. The emphasis is on 'painting as object' rather than any recognisable image or narr...

2019-21 Turps Studio Painting Programme, Turps Art School, London

2016-19 BA (Hons) Painting (1st Class), Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London

2015-16 Foundation Diploma Fine Art, The Art Academy, London

2021 July TURPS LEAVERS SHOW | The work of 23 postgraduate painters from TURPS Art School at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London

2020 March TURPS OPEN STUDIOS at Turps Art School, London

2019 December THE AUCTION COLLECTIVE SHOW at The Menier Gallery, Borough, London

2019 November NJAS SHOW at University of the Arts, Holborn, London

2019 June DEGREE SHOW (BA Painting final year) at Camberwell College of Arts, London

2019 February INTERIM SHOW (BA Painting final year) at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London

2018 June CAMBERWELL PRINTMAKING 2018 at Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2018 June HARD GROUND at Pempeople Gallery, Peckham, London

2018 January OVER CAPACITY (BA Painting 2nd year show) at CGP London Gallery, Southwark Park, London

2017 June ARTHOUSE OPEN STUDIOS, Richmond upon Thames, London

2017 May WIP (BA Painting 1st year show) at Camberwell College of Arts, London

2017 March MIXER, an exhibition of emerging artists at Protein Studios, Shoreditch, London

2016 July THE ART ACADEMY GRADUATE SHOW at The Art Academy, London