Andrew Graves - Candy

Andrew Graves

Candy, 2024

Soft pastel on Hahnemühle velour paper

32 x 29 cm

About the artist

Andrew Graves studied at Kingston University (Ba Hons) and Middlesex University (MA), where he completed his PhD (examined by Iain Kiaer and Sonia Boyce) in 2016. His Doctorate ‘A User’s Guide for Painters and Cyclists: Very Abstract Painting and Serious Cycling’ explores contemporary painterly abstraction specifically in the context of European and mid-century American painting and uses the racing cyclist as model for practice. He has exhibited widely including Switzerland, Belgium, France, USA, South Korea and the UK. This past year he has been included in the Marlborough Gallery’s Abstract Colour exhbition and Sean Scully recently included his work in Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland at Flowers Gallery, London. He has also been included in a three person show at Ana Cristea Gallery, New York and was included in the Peacock Space (Aberdeen) Simply Painting exhibition - a group show focusing on the language of abstract painting. He has been awarded the Jerwood’s Galleries New Contemporary painting prize and selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition at The Curve, Barbican.