Michael Andrews, 1928-1995

1928
Born in Norwich.

1945-53
Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.

1953
Rome Scholarship in Painting Lived at the Digswell Arts Trust.

1958-59
Taught at Norwich School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art and
Chelsea School of Art.

1961
Received Gulbenkian Purchase Award.

1973
Invited to use the Visitor’s Studio at the Royal College of Art for 6 months.

1977
Moved from London back to Norfolk. Visited Ayers Rock in Australia.

1992
Moved back to London.

1995
Died on 19 July.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1958, 63
Beaux Arts Gallery, London

1974
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

1978
Paintings 1977-78, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

1980-81
Retrospective exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London and tour

1986
Rock of Ages Cleft for Me, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1952
Four Young Artists, Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Young Painters, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1953
Drawings for Pictures, Arts Council of Great Britain

1955
8 Painters, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
6 Young Painters, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

1960-61
Modern British Portraits, The Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge and tour

1962
British Self Portraits from Sickert to the Present Day, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

1964
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1954- 64, Tate Gallery, London
British Painting in the ‘60s, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1964-65
Pittsburgh International 1964, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

1966
Survey 66: Figurative Art, Camden Arts Centre, London

1967
Drawing Towards Painting 2, Arts Council of Great Britain.
English Painting 1951-1967, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich

1968
Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, London

1971
The Slade 1871-1971, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1972
Tercera Bienal de Arte Coltejar, Medellin, Colombia

1973
Critic’s Choice, selected by Michael Shepherd, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

1974
Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Lefevre Gallery, London        

1977
Real Life: Peter Moores Liverpool Project, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London        

1979-80
Narrative Painting, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and tour.                
The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and tour (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)

1981-82
Eight Figurative Painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

1982
British Drawings and Watercolours, British Council tour, People’s Republic of China

1983
As of Now: Peter Moores Liverpool Project, The Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool

1984
The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1984-85
The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative Paintings from Britain, British Council tour, New Delhi and Bombay

1985
A Singular Vision, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter and tour

1986
Gallery Artists, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Robin Campbell Commemorative Exhibition, Arts Council of Great Britain
Smiths Galleries, London

1986-87
Looking into Paintings, Arts Council of Great Britain, Castle Museum, Nottingham and on tour

1987
British Art in the 20^th Century: The Modern Movement, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1987-88
A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, British Council tour, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo        

2001
Major Works by Michael Andrews, Tate Britain, London


Selected Bibliography
Andrews, M. and Feaver, W., Rock of Ages Cleft for Me. Recent Paintings by Michael Andrews, exhibition catalogue, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1986
Bernard, B. and Raban, J. Michael Andrews: The Delectable Mountain: The Ayers Rock Series and Other Landscape Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1991
Calvocoressi, R., Michael Andrews: The Scottish Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1991
Feaver, W. and Moorhouse, P., Michael Andrews, exhibition catalogue,Tate Britain, 19 July-7 October 2001
Gowing, L., Michael Andrews, exhibition catalogue, London, Hayward Gallery; Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery; U. Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery; 1981
Hyman, J.,The Battle for Realism, Yale University Press, 2001