Jamie Andrews

Jamie Andrews was born on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. His inspiration to become an artist stems from his father, a dealer of art and antiques in the 1960s. Who encouraged him to playfully draw and look imaginatively at life, opening a world of visual communication and imagination. Moving from his beloved Dartmoor to the small Cornish town of Looe in 1976 at 14 years old was not a happy one, with a sudden realisation of growing up. Punk rock music and the attitude of no future dominated his mid-teens, creating a long-lasting rebellious streak. He defies limits and expectations, enjoying poking fun at more traditional methods of creating art.
Working with a childlike playfulness and naivety with the introduction of toys and charms, often vintage, highly collectable pieces which the artist works into his acrylic paintings and sculptures as a means of playing with the idea of and subverting value.
J’s vivid, tactile works bind a jovial, playfulness and innocence with much deeper messages, often darkly humorous accounts of politics, religion and the troubling events of contemporary society. Throughout the matter-of-fact and satirical documentation of worldly matters, J maintains a deeply rooted sense of compassion for his fellow man ...

My fondest memory of childhood was sitting at the kitchen table drawing with my father. He would ask me to make a mark, a scribble to which I would willingly oblige. He would put eyes and legs on the scribble, much to my amusement, then add a speech bubble to write something for me to respond. We would draw like this for what seemed hours, the process continuing until a story evolved from a simple form of visual communication, all to the sounds of laughter as the paper filled. That was the only real education in visual communication that I needed to know what I would do in life. ,

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS.
2007 Ammunition show, Norwich, Norfolk.
2007 Winner of the Al-turner-tive Turner Art Prize, Liverpool, Merseyside.
2007 View Two Gallery, Liverpool, Merseyside.
2008 The Peoples Place, Liverpool, Merseyside.
2008 The Cut Art Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk.
2008 Ethna Dillon, Norwich, Norfolk.
2008 Baskerville House, Birmingham, West Midlands.
2008 Norwich Castle Open, Norwich, Norfolk.
2008 National Painting Prize, Chichester, West Sussex.
2008 Ammunition Reloaded, Norwich, Norfolk.
2009 Ethna Dillon, Norwich, Norfolk.
2009 Rude Boys, Norwich, Norfolk.
2009 Stew Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk.
2009 National Painting Prize, Chichester, West Sussex.
2009 Digby Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
2010 Elements, Winner of the Bayer Prize.The Forum Norwich, Norfolk.
2010 Eastern Open, Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
2010 Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
2010 Halesworth Gallery, Halesworth, Suffolk.
2010 Theatre Royal, Norwich, Norfolk.
2011 Eastern Open, Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
2011 La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London.
2011 Flying Colours, Assembly House, Norwich, Norfolk.
2011 Silo Arts, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
2011 Urban Curations Group show, Hackney, London.
2013 Apex, Bury St Edmunds, ...