FILTERED
Wednesday 29th May - Tuesday 4th June.
Andy Sylvester

10am - 5pm daily. (Last Tuesday 10am - 1pm)

Private View: Thursday 30th May, 6-9pm (All welcome)

Andy Sylvester read Fine Art Painting at Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1984 -87.  Since graduating, he has worked both in art education and as a practising painter.

He builds his images over time and references photographic sources.  These are either his own images put through filters or socially shared images.

As a gay man he is interested in queer identities and uses images of queer people to explore the multiplicity of ideals we are presented with.

Andy is especially fascinated by the ‘selfie’ as a new form of portraiture and considers the relevance of how the ‘sitter’ controls the image they display to the world through subjectively considered colour and filters.

His work discusses the world around us all.  He is also interested in landscape and the paintings in this show reflect these two genres. The paintings on show explore narrative, colour, line, composition, and mark-making.

Andy has work in several public and private collections.