Andy Mccafferty

I explore ways to experience ‘objects’ in relation to how we perceive them. I make ‘looking’ active rather than reactive, showing different viewpoints. An important perspective I examine is ‘frequency’ – using computers to extract information from inside and outside of the body. This information is translated into a poetic experience of patterns, sounds, and imagery.

I create digital paintings, sculptures, installations, stereographic animations, and real-time interactive compositions as ways to investigate underlying mind and body processes.

This site highlights an ongoing series of contemporary digital paintings made by the creation of images from sound, and a 3D printed sculpture of a Renaissance illusion from an iconic 16th century painting, carefully designed and transformed using sculpting and CAD software.

I have exhibited in the UK and abroad, and my work is available at the Wellcome Collection, London.

For the full range of artwork I produce please search for my name to visit my personal website.

2007 – 2008 Institute of Education, University of London. Post-Compulsory PGCE
2004 – 2006 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. MFA
2000 – 2003 De Montfort University, Leicester
BA Honours Fine Art - First Class Honours

Awards:
2021 Digital Technology and Wellbeing - Action Research
2005 AHRC Grant, Professional Preparation Masters Scheme; Explored relationships between art and science, in particular the neural condition for art creation (Neuroaesthetics) and visualising conceptual models in physics. During this period I initiated a collaborative project at Woburn Research Space entitled 'Light and Colour.'
2003 Paget and Clepham Award for outstanding work. De Montfort University, Leicester

2023 ChairArt Retrospective and Manifesto, Harborough Theatre
2016 cueB Open. cueB Gallery, London
Bound. The Exchange, London
2015 Tracing My Echo. One Year Gallery, Taiwan
2014 Art Biennial MACI, Colombia.
Tracing My Echo. Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin
2013 The London Group Centenary Open. Cello Factory, London
Tracing My Echo. Tettix Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012 Changes. Topolski Century Gallery, London
Memoir. Topolski Century Gallery, London
2009 Lee Campbell Projects; Speedy Gonzales. Oubliette Arthouse, London
2008 ARSciE, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London. Collaboration between artists and scientists.
2007 Space. Moogie Wonderland, Kent
2006 MFA Degree Show ’06; Sladonia. The Slade School of Fine Art, North Cloisters Space, UCL
Light and Colour. 8 Slade Postgraduates. Woburn Square Studios Research Space
2005 Arts Unwrapped, Open Studios. Great Western Studios, London.
Imagine This. Candid Gallery, London
Slade Postgraduates New Work curated by James Roberts. Woburn Square Studios
The Slade School of Fine Art Presents… University of Westminster Architecture Department. London
2004 Graduate Art. Candid Gallery, London
Candid Summer Exhibition. Candid Gallery, London
City Open. City Gallery, Leicester
2003 Fresh Ar...