Andrew Bracey

Residency Presentation

Residency Artist

Residency dates: 3 October – 5 November 2011

During his residency the following people visited Andrew in the studio:
Dave Hoyland, Director at Seventeen Gallery
Sacha Craddock, independent curator and critic
Ingrid Swenson, Director at PEER Gallery
Milly Thompson, artist and lecturer
Dan Hays, artist and lecturer

Off-site visits:
Cathy Lomax and Ali Sharma, Transistion Gallery
Sigrid Holmwood, The National Gallery

Andrew Bracey's practice hovers on the fringes of painting as it crosses over and expands into installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. He often employs existing material and the readymade as alternatives to the traditional canvas support for painting, to explore contrasting relationships of characteristics found in a variation of medium.

Bracey is intrigued by the visual saturation of contemporary life which is explored through a variety of separate subjects ranging from zoology, cinema and tegestology. His work often reflects how society has re-configured ways of viewing and processing mass-information in a variety of contexts, whilst questioning the role of the individual and the crowd within such changing structures.

Presentation of work at Standpoint Gallery, October 2011

Also included in the public presentation was video work, which explored the physical space in which we encounter and engage with painting. For this Andrew appropriated scenes from films that represented a gallery experience that does not follow expected behaviour, exposing how various characters interact with the space in comparison to normality of a gallery visit. The video was a work in progress. During his presentation Andrew also chose to move his studio downstairs to the front of the gallery and in view of passers by on the street outside.