Andrew Bryant is an artist based in Cornwall, UK

Andrew Bryant’s work, ‘…explores the complex relationship between form and perception, considering how surface, texture, and materiality shape—and sometimes distort—our understanding of the world. He examines how appearances can expose as well as obscure deeper truths, realities, and possibilities.

‘Drawing on print, the internet, and his own photography, Andrew creates meticulous paintings of isolated objects that are fragile, lacking, or incomplete. The works are informed by a deep interest in critical theory, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as an ongoing engagement with art and image-making.

‘Andrew’s recent body of work is an exploration into a critical engagement with AI, which has generated hybridised imagery drawn from his own photographs and found images. Simultaneously beguiling and banal, the objects are rendered with a forensic painterly process that acts to simultaneously reveal and conceal complex realities, structures, and processes.’

— Workplace Gallery London

Andrew Bryant was born in the UK in 1971 and lives and works in Cornwall. He has been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and the Wells Art Contemporary, and long-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize. He is a visiting tutor at Newlyn School of Art. His work is in private collections in the UK and abroad.

Education

  • 2012 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London

  • 2001 Post Graduate Diploma Narrative Writing, University of Derby

  • 1996 BA (1st class hons) Photographic Studies, University of Derby

  • 1992 BTEC Foundation in Art and Design, Tresham College, Kettering

Awards and bursaries

  • 2024 Creative Kernow Associates | Flamm | Manchester Contemporary

  • 2022 Shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize

  • 2021 Shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary

  • 2021 Long-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize

  • 2021 Newlyn School of Art, One Year Mentoring Bursary

  • 2000 ACE creative writing bursary, Arts Council England

  • 1995 Exchange Scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

  • 1993 Winner, best use of alternative media, Leicester Picture House Artists Book Prize

Selected exhibitions

  • 2026 Ghosts of All We've Ever Been, Krowji, Redruth

  • 2025 Cold Feed, Workplace, London

  • 2024 Manchester Contemporary, Manchester

  • 2024 Ud Rocashaas, Hweg, Penzance

  • 2023 Rapture, Tremenheere Gallery, Gulval

  • 2022 Contemporary British Painting Prize (shortlisted artist), Huddersfield Art Gallery and Thames-side Studios Gallery, London

  • 2022 Unstable Monuments, Bristol

  • 2022 Rhizome, Tremenheere Gallery, Gulval

  • 2022 Group show, Chapel House, Penzance

  • 2021 In the Shadow of the Object (solo exhibition), Dust: The Art of Grief, Penzance

  • 2021 Wells Art Contemporary (shortlisted artist), Wells Cathedral, Wells

  • 2018 Open Studios, Old Bakery Studios, Truro

  • 2016 Open Studios, Old Press, St. Austell

  • 2012 Q-Art, APT Gallery, London

  • 2011 Skin Job (curator), Core Gallery, London

  • 2010 The Eighteenth Emergency (curator), Core Gallery, London

  • 2010 Q-Art, Matt Roberts Gallery, London

  • 2010 Presequel (curator), Goldsmiths College, London

  • 2010 B-sides, Goldsmiths College, London

  • 2007 Total Image Nation, Chocolate Factory, London

  • 2007 Illuminations with (Carol Marin-Pache), My Life in Art, London

  • 2003 Punctuation Marks, Leicester City Gallery

  • 2003 You Are Here, various venues, Nottingham

  • 2001 This is Not Home (solo show), Q Studios, Derby

  • 2000 Turning the Page (winner: Best alternative media artist’s book prize), Picture House Gallery, Leicester

  • 1999 Intimate Land (solo show), Big Blue Cafe Gallery, Derby

  • 1999 Cracking Up, Pink House, Nottingham

  • 1997 Notes in Passing, Picture House Gallery, Leicester

  • 1997 Young Photographers, Montage Gallery, Derby

  • 1993 Two Photographers, Picture House Gallery, Leicester

Publicity

Published writing

  • 2013 Birds of a Feather, a-n Magazine, April 2013

  • 2012 A Good Blog, a-n Magazine Jan 2012

  • 2011 Artists Talking… Talking, a-n Magazine Nov 2011

  • 2010 The Teaching and Learning of Art; or How to Avoid Being Eaten by a Giraffe, Esferapública Columbia, June 2010 (first appeared in Q-Art London, 2009 and Hit and Miss 3, 2009)

  • 2009 Why Professional Artists Need a Blog, a-n June 2009

  • 2008 Artists Talking — Internationally, a-n magazine September 2008

  • 2008 The Show Must Go On, a-n magazine July/August 2008