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Andrew Cranston

Andrew Cranston (b. 1969, Hawick, UK) is a Glasgow-based painter whose narrative vignettes are culled from his own personal history, as well as literary and anecdotal sources. Cranston’s compositions effect a layered referentiality by incorporating varnish and collage. He often uses the hardback covers of books as a support for his paintings, demonstrating his surreal, deadpan sense of humor. Cranston retextures their surfaces with dense layers of paint, a technique which recalls Post-Impressionists such as Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Cranston was included in the exhibition Outside, curated by Matthew Higgs, at Karma in 2016. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and a former lecturer at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Cranston’s recent exhibitions include Ingleby Gallery at Frieze New York (2019); Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2018); Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London (2017); and Look Again: Visual Arts and Design Festival, Aberdeen (2016).

Cranston’s work is represented in the collections of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom; Unilever Collection, London, United Kingdom; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, among others.

Single work, Andrew Cranston

Born 1969, Hawick, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Glasgow, United Kingdom

EDUCATION

1996

MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

1993

BA (Honors) in Fine Art, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

1990

Diploma in Art and Design, Manchester Polytechnic, United Kingdom

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2021

Ingleby Gallery, London, Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson: Faces in the Water

Karma, New York, Waiting for the Bell

2019

Ingleby Gallery at Frieze New York, Solo Exhibition

2018

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, But the dream had no sound

2017

Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, If I were a carpenter and other stories

2016

Look Again: Visual Art and Design Festival, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Henderson Blyth’s Drawer
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings from a room
Upper Church Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2015

Rob Tufnell, London, Book Launch: Who is this who is coming?

2014

Display Gallery, London, Who is this who is coming?

2013

Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, What to do after a death in Scotland
Upper Hope Park Church Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Who is this who is coming?
Hawick Museum, United Kingdom, Walter, do you remember?

2010

Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Im Büro

2009

International Project Space, Bournville College, Birmingham, United Kingdom, What a Man does in the Privacy of His Own Attic is His Affair
School of Art, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (In)Visible Grays

2008

Royal Academy, London, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, New Work

2002

Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Mappin Open Solo Show
Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Narrative Driven By Shape

2000

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Stoorsooker

1998

Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, The Happy Hunting Ground (Part 2)
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, The Happy Hunting Ground

1997

Long and Ryle Art International, London, New Work

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Margot Samel, New York, To be a giant and keep quiet about it 

The Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition

2021

Adams and Ollman, Portland, Oregon, Dear John

2020

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, HOME
Karma, New York, (Nothing but) Flowers

2019

Sipgate Shows, Düsseldorf, Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island
Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France, Du Coq À L’âne
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, United Kingdom, Painters Beach Club: Telescope

2018

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, TWENTY
J Hammond Projects, London, Zeros to Heroes: The Beta Band Archive

2016

Karma, New York, Outside; curated by Matthew Higgs
Feldbuschweisner Galerie, Berlin, The secret life of spaces
Polarcap Contemporary Art Projects, Dunbar, United Kingdom, Now Now
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom, Towards Night
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Trigger Words

2014

Mac Arts Centre, Belfast, Mac International Open
Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, Enclosures, Elsewhere

2013

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Between the Late and Early
Satis House, Belfast, Long they look and deeply

2012

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, John Moores Painting Prize
Second Guest Projects and Ana Christea Gallery, New York, Dorian Gray

2011

Duff House, Banff, United Kingdom, Hurricane Lamb
Norwich Gallery, United Kingdom, Courtesy of Objects (guest artist in Marc Camille Chaimowitz exhibition)
Fleming Collection, London, Summer Exhibition

2010

Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Prints of Darkness

2009

Norwich Gallery, United Kingdom, EAST International

2008

Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, United Kingdom, This Dark Ceiling
Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, Interieur

2007

Norwich Gallery, United Kingdom, EAST International
Crane Arts Centre, Philadelphia, Digital VD
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, D.C.A., Dundee

2006

Atelier Am Eck, Düsseldorf, Germany, The Overlooked Atelier

2003

Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, United Kingdom, Oriel Mostyn 13
Rockwell, London, Sometime Blonde
Galerie Wozownia, Torun, Poland, Albatross: Scottish Artists at Galeria Sztuki Wozownia

2000

Cabinet Gallery, London, The Poster Show

1999

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh,United Kingdom, In the Summertime
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, The Poster Show

1996

Thames Valley University, London, Bad Reproduction
Galerie Poo-Poo, London, Winkle; curated by BANK

1995

The Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, Interim

1993

Institute Francais, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Project Georges Perec

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Royal College of Art, London
Unilever Collection, London
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, United Kingdom
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

LECTURES, HONORS, & AWARDS

2015

Visual Arts Award, Hope Scott Trust, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2014

The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Painting, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2013

Quality Arts Production Award, Creative Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2012

Special Jury Recognition for excellence in Poster Design (for short film ‘Pitch Black Heist’), South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas

2009

Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2008

Creative Development Award, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2006

WASPS/Dusseldorf Artists’ Exchange, Residency, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award for Lecturers, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

2001

Mappin Open Solo Show Award, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom

2000

Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1999

Small Assistance Grant, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1995

Erasmus+ Travel Award to Vienna, European Commission, Brussels

1993

John Kinross Travelling Scholarship to Florence, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
NatWest Prize for Art, NatWest, London

PUBLICATIONS

2018

But the dream had no sound
Andrew Cranston, Peter Doig
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
164 pages, hardback
19.5 x 24.5 cm

2016

Henderson Blyth’s Drawer
Andrew Cranston
The Gatehouse, Robert Gordon University / Look Again Visual Art and Design Festival, Aberdeen

2015

Andrew Cranston, Who is this who is coming?
Andrew Cranston, Liza Dimbleby
Aye-Aye Books, Glasgow
80 pages, hardback
23.7 x 21.5 cm

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