IAN ANDREWS MA RCA
RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2025 (Upcoming)
RHYTHMICAL: the particles, the cave, the brain and the body, touring exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales. UK.
2024
RHYTHMICAL: the particles, the cave, the brain and the body,touring exhibition,The Gallery @The Hive.Birmingham UK.
2022
REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS Forum Exposition Bonlieu, Annecy, France in association with the Laboratoire d’ Annecy de Physique des Particules for the Fete de la science.
POINT to LINE to PARTICLE The Beacon Museum, Cumbria.UK. (Curator Alan Gillon)
2021
MATTER MEDIA and ENERGY Studio-KIND contemporary art space, Braunton, North Devon.UK. (Curator Richard Gregory)
2019
COLLISION EVENT 3rd Floor Gallery, Library of Birmingham.UK. (Curator David Miller)
2018
THE SKETCHBOOK AND THE COLLIDER Rotunda Gallery, Aston Webb Building, University of Birmingham.UK. (Curated by Jenny Lance)
2016
TIDAL: HIGH AND DRY, SLIPPING GLIMPSE, WHITE GOODS Telsen Centre, Aston, Birmingham, UK.
2012
RUMMAGE OUT: FIND BY VIOLENCE SEARCHING Terrace Gallery, Great Western Arcade, Birmingham, UK. (Curator David Miller)
COLLABORATIONS
2023
ONGOING COLLABORATION with PARTICLE PHYSICIST PROF KOSTAS NIKOLOPOULOS Regular meetings and discussions, delivering exhibitions, educational workshops and events championing trans-disciplinary collaboration.
2018
MEET ME AT LIVE AGE An In-Public community engagement project with the New Vic Theatre, Age UK and Keele University, workshops with the West End Craft group, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
PEACEFUL POETRY An In-Public community engagement project with the Shakespeare birthplace trust including workshops with primary school and Mencap, live poetry event and exhibition.
THE PARTICLE EVENT With dancers Mairi Pardalaki, Fanny Travaglino, musician Alex Mentis and particle physicist Prof. Kostas Nikolopoulos, Hexagon Theatre, mac birmingham, Canon Hill Park.
2017
AGE-YARD-SHIFT An In-Public community engagement project at mac birmingham including workshop, exhibition and publication.
PRIMARY PORTRAITS An In-Public community engagement project at Primary Schools across Birmingham including Allens Croft, Alston, Brookvale and Ark Chamberlain Primary schools.
FEATURE Collaborative group video, on-line platform produced by Dan Auluk.
INTRODUCING PHYSICS CONCEPTS THROUGH FINE ART An In-Public community engagement project, University of Birmingham, particle physics Department with various schools.
2016
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE With Graham Burquest. Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK.
OBJECTS OF INSPIRATION An In-Public community engagement project, Innovation Birmingham, Aston science Park.
2015
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE With Dr Kostas Nikolopoulos, particle physicist, University of Birmingham.
CONTINGENCY PLANS With Ben Harding, The Lombard Method, Birmingham, UK.
2013
BABELLING: THE ART OF RAT CATCHING ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham City University.
BABELLING Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London.
BABELLING: PREVIEW Telsen Centre, Aston, Birmingham, UK. (Curators Ian Andrews, Dave Miller and Paul Newman.)
2012
COUGHING FIT With Paul Newman, part of the exhibition Going Postal, Departure Foundation, ITV Building, Gas Street, Birmingham, UK. (Curators Davie and Hollingworth.)
RESIDENCIES
2023/24
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, (SMQB) University of Birmingham. Embedded in a research team investigating the disruption of circadian rhythms in the brain.
2022
THE SHARED SPACES ARTS FESTIVAL Performative and collaborative drawing residency with yr 8 pupils from Warwick School in association with physicist Giovanni Rogers.
2021
MICRO COLLISION EVENT EXPERIMENTS Virtual residency at Smallhousegalleryuk, with artist/curator Eldi Dundee, Dolls-House Galleries, London.
2020
STRYX RESIDENCY : MAKING, EXPERIMENTING AND EXHITIBING NEW WORK Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham.
2018
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Research and Cultural Collections / Particle Physics Department, University of Birmingham.
THE SOUND OF DRAWING part of the group residency We don’t talk any more, live performances on non-verbal communication at Stryx, Birmingham. (Curator Dan Auluk)
2017
SOUP IV - SLOW COOKER, ARTIST RESIDENCY & TOUR two-month residency at Stryx, Birmingham. Tour -The Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. Meter room, Coventry. Direct art action, Walsall. Artists’ Workhouse, Studley.
GRASSLANDS 3 With Dan Auluk, artist/curator and architect of Grasslands. Grasslands B29
2016
GRASSLANDS 1 & 2 With Dan Auluk, artist/curator and architect of Grasslands. Grasslands B29
GROUP
2024
ENCODED REALITIES, Artists working with Centre for Systems Modelling & Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham, Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK.
2023
ENTANGLEMENT 2. in the RBSA DRAWING PRIZE EXHIBITION, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham. Selected by Barbara Walker, Kate Mason and Steve Bulcock.
2022
A HISTORY THROUGH OBJECTS innovation and research at University of Birmingham. Aston Webb Building, Rotunda Space.
YOUR GUESS Hand-drawn artist book, part of West Midlands Open at New Art Gallery Walsall.UK.
2020
NEWWAVE Viner Gallery, Wolverhampton.UK.
CATALYST Science Communication organisation at Michigan State University, USA. (On-line exhibition.)
2018
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Canal House, Birmingham.uk. (Curator David Miller)
THE PAIN PICTURES Direct Arts Action at BHS, Sutton Coldfield.UK.
2017
LITTLE MONSTERS Showcase Gallery, jubilee Trade Centre, Birmingham.UK. (Curator Paul Newman.)
NAWKI- not as we know it 2 hour programme of Digital / moving image works curated by 12o collective screened at locations simultaneously across the UK. Nine organisations involved, Eastside Projects, screened at Centrala, Birmingham, UK.
2016
ARTIST BOOK FAIR weekend event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
SELF SERVICE - ARTIST SUMMER CAMP ESP Members Exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2015
SALON Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.(Curators Rachel Bradley/ Mona Casey.)
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Jerwood Space and tour. Selected by Dexter Dalwood, Salima Hashmi, and John-Paul Stonard. Coordinator Professor Anita Taylor.
GAP 43 at the Artist’s Summer Camp, ESP Members Exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
GAME OVER Newman Bros. Coffin Works, Birmingham, UK. (Curator Jon Wilkes, Transient Arts)
2014
MONSTER CLUB The Works Gallery, Jubilee Trade Centre Birmingham, UK. (Curator Paul Newman.)
BEORMA Minerva works, Birmingham, UK.
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Jerwood Space and tour. Selected by Gavin Delahunty, Dr Janet McKenzie and Alison Wilding RA. Coordinator Professor Anita Taylor.
2012
INVASION: CULURAL TAKEOVER OF A FACTORY SPACE AE Harris, (Stan’s Café,) Birmingham UK. (Curator Jon Wilkes.)
OUTLINED Artists from the Outline Drawing Initiative, Minerva works, Birmingham, UK.
RECENT ARTICLES / EVENTS / AWARDS
2023/24
JOHN FEENEY CHARITABLE TRUST FELLOWSHIP, for the development of new work from November2023 to November 2024.
POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANTEE, for professional and living expenses and the development of new work from July 2023 to July 2024.The award of $22,000 from the PKF institution in New York is in support of Lee Krasner’s mission to advance the work of exceptional visual artists facing financial constraints.
2022
ARTIST PRESENTATION: THE SKETCHBOOK AND THE COLLIDER to the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) 25th annual conference at CERN, Geneva.
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP WEEK & ARTIST TALK supporting POINT to LINE to PARTICLE at The Beacon Museum, Cumbria with primary and secondary school pupils and family groups in association with physicist Dr Patrick Knights.
LOTTERY FUNDED ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND AWARD of £6000 for POINT to LINE to PARTICLE at The Beacon Museum, Cumbria.
2021
VISUALISING PARTICLES 4 workshops for children aged 8-12 and artist talk supporting MEDIA MATTER and ENERGY at Studio-KIND. Contemporary art space, Braunton, North Devon.
ARTIST TALK Microsoft teams presentation for Birmingham City University
THE SKETCHBOOK AND THE COLLIDER Zoom presentation for Tebbs Contemporary.
HIS DARK MATERIALS Article published in Printmaking Today volume 30, summer issue by Sarah Bodman,
2020
LOTTERY FUNDED ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANT of £2,500 for COVID relief.
MAKER MONDAY Zoom presentation for STEAMhouseUK.
2019
ARTIST TALKS, TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION and EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS at COLLISION EVENT, Library of Birmingham for primary and secondary schools and community groups.
LOTTERY FUNDED ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANT of £10,000 for COLLISION EVENT, Library of Birmingham.
THE SKETCHBOOK AND THE COLLIDER Article published in The Blue Notebook journal for artists books.Vol 13 No 2, by Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow for Artists' Books, UWE.
2018
VISUALISING PARTICLE PHYSICS CONCEPTS THROUGH VISUAL ART fine art/ physics workshops for schools, co-author with Prof. Nikolopoulos, research paper published by the Institute of Physics.
MEET THE ARTIST / PHYSICIST EVENT with Dr Kostas Nikolopoulos, University of Birmingham,
2017
FIVE ARTISTS FROM BIRMINGHAM YOU SHOULD KNOW on-line review by Culture Trip.
LOTTERY FUNDED ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANT of £10,000 for an In-Public community engagement project at mac Birmingham, event,publication and exhibition.
RESEARCH BURSARY from New Art West Midlands to research alternative delivery models for In-Public.
2016
ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER handmade book, selected by Sarah Bodman for AN’s top-10 artist’s books of the year.
ONE TO WATCH featured in State magazine, November issue.
ARTIST’S TALK at The Wilson, museum and art gallery for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
FEATURED IN THE ARTIST’S BOOK YEARBOOK edited by Sarah Bodman, Impact Press, UWE.
2015
IN THE STUDIO WITH IAN ANDREWS article by Dr Megan Wakefield, New Art West Midlands.
WELCOME TO MIDVILLE conference on Art, Money and the Market. Artist speaker. New Art WM.
EMOTIONAL ART SELECTED FOR JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Birmingham Observer.
2013
15 METHODS: 20 QUESTIONS interview, publication and presentation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Q-Art/ Higher Education Academy.
2012
IAN ANDREWS: RUMMAGE OUT review by Will Davie, Aesthetica magazine.
EMPLOYMENT
1995-2010
PROGRAMME MANAGER IN ART AND DESIGN Sutton Coldfield College, Birmingham.UK.
2010-2015
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, OUTLINE DRAWING INITIATIVE/ CITY OF 1000 STORIES PROJECT Birmingham Metropolitan College, Birmingham.UK.
2015-2019
PART-TIME LECTURER at Birmingham city University and the University of Birmingham.UK.
2016- 2020
CO-FOUNDER of the community arts group IN-PUBLIC, with Sarah Fortes Mayer.