Andy Cumming

Andy Cumming is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, mixed media painting, film, sound, and installation. He was selected for the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition in 2010, receiving both the Royal Scottish Academy and Edinburgh Printmakers awards. His work is held in public collections including the Stirling University Art Collection.
His practice began with a fascination for how children create—intuitively, playfully, and without formal boundaries. This evolved into a wider investigation of the evolution of creativity, drawing parallels between stages of child development and the learning processes of artificial intelligence, where knowledge emerges through repetition, trial, and adaptation.
While studying for a Master’s in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art, he began incorporating technology—video projection, circuit-bending, and immersive installations—to explore how digital culture affects perception, belief, and memory.
Collage and mixed media reflect a psychological impulse to reconstruct meaning from fragments—mirroring how we process memory, myth, and history while embracing chance, intuition, and complexity. These forms echo archaeological reconstruction, often blu...

MA Fine Art Printmaking 2009-2011
Studied at Edinburgh’s College of Art (Edinburgh University) in Edinburgh.

BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking 2005-2009
Studied at Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon’s University) in Aberdeen.

Foundation Degree in Art and Design 2004-2005

Solo and Collaborative Shows

2018 'Adam Linklater: Mythopoeia Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition.

2016 'Maritime Lane Collective' inaugural Exhibition, Leith Edinburgh;

2015 'Secret Arcade' Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow.

2013 ‘Reality And The Prescribed Alternative‘ Joint exhibition with Dr Dulux, at the ‘Old Ambulance Depot’ Edinburgh.

2012 ‘Gold Sheep,’ Joint exhibition with Lucie Hrnickova, at ‘The Old Ambulance Depot’,, Edinburgh.

2010 ‘Air’, Edinburgh College of Art, Studio CO2, Edinburgh

2009 ‘Trance Bender’, Edinburgh College of Art, Project Space, Edinburgh

2009 ‘Degree show’, Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon University), Aberdeen

2007 ‘Summer Festival Show’ ‘Favorit’, Edinburgh


Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 ‘Saatchi, Street Art Collection’ Curated by Katherine Henning (Saatchi Curator) Featured on Saatchi home page 2015.

2015 ‘Spring Exhibition 7th Feb till 22nd March’ at La Galerie 1940. Edinburgh

2013 ‘Edinburgh Printmakers at ROSL’‘ at the Royal Overseas League Princess St. Edinburgh.

2013 ‘Edinburgh Printmakers Short Film Award’ Edinburgh Printmakers Website.

2012 ‘RSA Open‘ at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

2012 ‘Mixed...