Exhibition

Andrew Cranston is a storyteller of sorts, without a clear story to tell, staging scenarios that often involve the human figure absorbed in particular activities and in specific, usually interior, spaces: cavernous elaborate stately rooms, or oppressive cells, cabins, artists studios. His subject broadly is space itself, all ‘species of spaces’ as George Perec would have it. His work springs from various sources: direct observation, photography, film stills, paintings, literary descriptions, anecdotes, jokes and so on. It is the spatial aspect imbedded or suggested by these various scenarios that especially interests Cranston, that the space itself is a kind of story. ’Who is this who is coming’ shows paintings of Andrew Cranston made in – or over - the last ten years.

About the Artist:

Andrew Cranston was born in Hawick, Scotland in 1969. He studied Fine Art at Grays School of Art ( 1990- 93) and completed an M.A in Painting at The Royal College of Art in 1996. Solo exhibitions include Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (2001); International Project Space, Birmingham (2009) and Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin (2013). He was selected for EAST International, Norwich (2007 and 2009); John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool (2012) and The Mac International, Belfast (2014). His Awards include a Creative Scotland grant (2013); The Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award (2006); The Arts Foundation (2014). He lives in Glasgow and lectures at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen.