Andrew Swan

My current work is figurative representation, addressing poverty, inequality and homelessness in my local area of Penwith, Cornwall. My current mediums are the use of copper sulphate etching on recycled metal, printmaking on paper and digital production of imagery on fabric.

Member of The Newlyn Society Of Artists (nsanewlyn.com).

Newlyn School of Art (2014-present).
2015 one year Art Mentoring Course
Also a regular attender of the Wednesday evening life drawing classes for the last 4 years.

Cornwall (07-2014)
Created a design based retail company called Raw Cornish which was hard work.

London (88-06)
Working for graphic design establishments and running my own design company.
Took up acting for two in years in between which was fun. Acted in a couple of stage plays and made a couple of short films.

Cardiff Art College (85-87)
2 year B-Tec design.

Falmouth School of Art (83-84).
One of the best years of my life: the one year foundation course (soon to be no more).

Praze and Beeble Village Fair (71-74).
Won first prize in the painting section (3 years in a row).

Crowan Primary School (69-71)
Commissioned at the age of 9 to design and oversee a team of painters to create a world map
(with imagery for each country) on the school playground to trial test a new, outdoor floor paint.

1971: Praze-an-Beeble Village Fair: !st prize for my drawing of Concorde in the future (I still have it).
2015: COLLIDER: PZ Gallery, Penzance: Mentoring course final exhibition. Two weeks in November.
2015: Chapel House Gallery: Penzance: Life drawing exhibition. 2 months in November
2016: DISKUDHA: The Old Bakery Studios, Truro (sculpture) and St Kea Churchyard (installation): One week in April.
2016: St Ives Artists: Winter Exhibition: One month in October.
2017: CAFÉLIFE: Swanlyn Studios, Penzance, Cornwall. 2 weeks in May.
2017: CAFÉMOOD: Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. 4 weeks in September/October.
2018: DRAWING EXPLORED: NSA Show, Tremenhere Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. 4 weeks May.
2018: HUMAN(E): Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. 4 weeks in June.
2018: ON VIEW: NSA Show, Tremenhere Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. 4 weeks September.
2018: KOBER: Heseltine Gallery, Truro, Cornwall. 8 weeks in October.
2018: SHAPES OF CHAPEL STREET: Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. 4 weeks in November.
2018: THE IDEAL HOMELESS SHOW: St Mungos, London SE1. 2 days in December.