Iain Andrews


Iain Andrews is the contemporary English painter. He was born in 1974 and lives and works in Manchester, England. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art and a Master of Arts in Painting from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and was awarded a Post-graduate Diploma in Art Psychotherapy from University of Sheffield Andrews’ work mixes the colour palette of contemporary abstract painting with the cracked paint and varnish associated with Renaissance masters and nostalgic Victorian painting, from which he also appropriates various compositional and figurative elements. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2009 Andrews was one of twelve artists chosen to appear in the BBC Television series "School of Saatchi", he won the Marmite Prize for Painting III with his work "The East Me". He was a judge for the Marmite Prize for Painting IV and was runner-up in the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce GM Art Prize 2016,

Selected collections

of 21st Century British Painting

Selected solo exhibitions

2015 - Changeling, York College Gallery, York, England.
2014 - Re:view, solo exhibition, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
2013 - Il teatro dei leviatano, Man and Eve, London
2013 - The Language of Paint, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, England
2012 - Mythopoeia, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington, England
2011 - Man & Eve at the Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, England
2009 - The Pilgrimage of Lost Children and Other Stories, Bankley Mill, Manchester, England

Selected group exhibitions

2016 - Correspond, Artworks, Halifax and touring London, Liverpool and Rye, England
2016 - Sixty, Lubomirov / Angus- Hughes, London
2016 - Finalist in the judged exhibition Anthology, Van der Plas Gallery, New York
2015 - Detail, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
2014 - Detail, H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand & Transition Gallery London
2013 - Beautiful Things, The Next Door Projects, Albert Dock, Liverpool, England
2012 - The Creatures of Prometheus, International Beethoven Festival, Chicago, USA
2011 - Polemically Small, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2011 - We Are All In This Together, Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010/11 The Marmite Prize III, Tameside Gallery, London, UK
2010 - The Borrowed Loop, Man & Eve, London, UK
2010 - The Crash Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK
2009 - Salon 09, Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK
2009 - British Art in the Twenty First Century, Opera Gallery, Hungary