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Stephen Andrews
MA Fine Art
sa@stephen-andrews.co.uk
An interest in isolated instances of palimpsest evident in everyday situations informs Andrews’ practice. He is drawn to layers of history that may be revealed through the seemingly insignificant features discovered on mundane surfaces. These overlooked details provide the artist with a point of rupture that both signals something of the past and asserts a presence in the now.
Currently focusing on brick walls, his background in architecture influences a predisposition to recognise anomalies such as holes and cracks. As an artist he then goes on to imbue the disruptive effect on the surface of these tiny ruptures with an elevated significance.
Andrews works across a range of drawing and painting media. His current paintings are in oil paint on wallpaper, to part of which he has applied a wax coating. In these, he reduces brickwork to a subtly rendered grid, skewed by perspective and distorted locally by intrusions on its surface. He initiates interplay between reality and its representation: an image alluding to a wall is made on strips of paper manufactured specifically to be applied to a wall. In displaying this unadorned, simply suspended from the wall surface, he declares that, in spite of any claim to the status of art work, at the end of the day it is just paper hanging on a wall.
MA Fine Art
Stephen Andrews / Kirsten Archer / Clare Chennells / Caitlin Doherty / Niki Gandy / Aaron Griffin / Rachael Kara Heath / Lisa Holden / Lauren Kate / Edward Kemshell / Sarah Parker / Jessica Pope / Glenys Shirley / Stephen Shirley / Rupert Smithson / Cheryl van Goethem / Emily Williams
MA Art and Design by Research
Wolverhampton School of Art Graduate Showcase 2021
We are delighted to announce our end of year graduate showcase highlighting the work of our final year students in Art, Design and Screen based subjects.
Over the last few weeks we have had a film crew on site in the School of Art recording student experiences and their work. The last year, has undoubtedly been a huge challenge to students and staff in the School of Art. We have found ourselves working at home in make-shift spaces and often with limited materials and kit. Our staff and students have been hugely inventive in finding opportunities and outlets to keep learning live - and this, in itself, is a testament to our creativity and resilience as a sector.
British Art Show 9
22 January - 10 April 2022
We are delighted to announce that the Wolverhampton School of Art has been selected as one of the venues for the prestigious British Art Show 9! In what is a major boost and sign of recognition for arts and culture in Wolverhampton, we are proud to be hosting this prestigious touring exhibition in January 2022.
FEINART Lecture Series
The FEINART LECTURE SERIES will discuss the role, impact, and theoretical implications of socially engaged art. This series of public talks is organized by the Innovative Training Network FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) jointly led by the Universities of Wolverhampton (coordinator), Zeppelin University (direction of the training programme) University Iceland, and University of Edinburgh.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860306
