Andrew Revell
SCULPTURE LIKE THE MUSIC YOU HATE
Improvised, intuitive, complex, dynamic, autotelic artworks celebrating a playful experienced ease with the material and complete disregard for you - the viewer, market or social tropes.
When you master a practice, you are asserting that you have not merely acquired it in a theoretical detached manner but that it has become embodied, part of your identity. To master is to dwell in the ‘zone’, in the moment, engaged therein without division between thought and action – mind and body.
Andrew is an artist with long successful history of public, private and commercial experience in commissions, residencies, exhibitions and a commitment to advancing the practice of sculpture as an artist, designer and an educator.
Sculpture is a practical, timeless activity and making art a fundamental human impulse; ultimately – ‘it’s all in the doing’ – the rest a parlour game.
COMMISSIONS
2013-15 Bespoke interior architectural commissions, private client, Rye, Sussex.
2002-03 Solar Mobile - Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester.
2002 Len Grant "Landmarks" sound installation - Imperial War Museum.
1996 "String Theory" cycle underpass relief - Hailsham, Sustrans.
1995 "Quercus Robur" cycle tunnel relief - Cuckoo Trail, Wealden Council.
1990 "Lorca" sculpture commission - Quedgeley Library, Gloucestershire County Council.
RESIDENCIES
2002-03 AA2A, printmaking - Bolton Institute, Artist access scheme.
1993 Artist in Residence - N.A.V.E. Oporto, Int. Artists Exchange.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2014 SPON! Gallery Zou, Covent Garden, London.
1993 Art Space Gallery, King Street, Bristol.
GROUP
2015 B.A.R Print Open, Willesden, London.
2014 ACAVA Open Studios, Acton, London.
2013 PUSH 107 - Marylebone, London.
2013 United Artists Menier Gallery, London.
2012 Pushing Print, Margate.
2010 18@108 - Royal Society of British Sculptors, Kensington, London.
2009 Engineered - Royal Society of British Sculptors, kensington, London.
2009 SW1 Gallery - Victoria, London.
2009 CGP Open - Southwark.
1993 N.A.V.E. - Vila Nova de Gaia, Oporto, Portugal.
1991-96 Touchy - Bristol, Artspace Gallery, Praxis Gallery, Ernst & Young, Bristol.
SPONSORSHIP & AWARDS
Westminster Arts Collection - 2009 Purchase Award,
Southwest Arts Training Bursary, British Steel Corporation, Kell Foundry & Helipebs casting award. Taylors Fladgate, Gulbenkian Foundation & Bristol/Oporto Fund (NAVE ArtSpace exchange)
CURATION
2017 "Out To Lunch" Crypt Gallery, London.
2014 "ShoShoShow" Crypt Gallery, London.
2013 "PUSH 107" Sculpture Group, Marylebone, London.
2012 "Off The Bench" Islington Arts Factory, London.
STUDIO GROUPS
2012-Currrent ACAVA Studios, Vale House, Acton, London.
2007-12 CELL Studios, Dalston, London.
1996-98 Independent Studio, Redcliffe, Bristol.
1991-96 ARTSPACE Studios, Spike Island, Bristol.
TEACHING
2012-Current Sculpture Tutor, Morley College, Kennington, London.
2012-Current Artist Tutor, London Sculpture Workshop, Bermondsey.
2003-Current Sculpture Tutor, City Literary Institute, Holborn London.
2003-09 Head of Art and Design, Westminster Cathedral Choir School, Victoria, London.
WORKSHOPS
PEER TO PEER
2012-Current London Sculpture Workshop, Greenwich.
GALLERY
2009-11 Schools Workshops, Royal Society Of British Sculptors.
2002 New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Stockport Art Gallery.
COMMUNITY
Adult Community Sculpture workshops, rural mental health group, Newent, Gloucestshire.
PUBLIC LIABILITY
AXISWEB - professional artist insurance.
CRB - checked.
Helping Artists Keep Going
Axis is an artist-led charity supporting contemporary visual artists with resources, connection, and visibility.