Michael Andrews
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Michael Andrews (1928-1995) first became celebrated in the early 1960s for his series of paintings recording his fascination with the party lifestyle of the bohemian world. Michael Andrews studied at the Slade School of Art from 1949 to 1953 and lived variously in Norfolk and London. His paintings of people explore human behaviour and relationships and mark Andrews as one of the late twentieth century's great painters of portraits and modern conversation pieces. His landscapes go beyond mere description, touching on the individual's relationship with his surroundings, and ideas concerning time, history and memory.
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Melanie and Me Swimming
This is the first comprehensive survey of Andrews's entire career, with over ninety works on loan from public and private collections in Europe, the USA and Australia. The exhibition will present all Andrews's major works, including the party paintings, among them The Deer Park, based on Norman Mailer's 1957 expose of Hollywood morals of the same title, a number of his extraordinary series such as Lights from the 1970s, and the final, elegiac works depicting the River Thames, including the last of these, on which Andrews was working at his death and which remained unfinished. Andrews's work ranges in scale from the intimate to the majestic, the largest canvases being over four metres in width, and he employs techniques in which careful preparation and the effects of chance are fused. His imagery evolved from various sources, including drawing from life, photography, the cinema and memory.
