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Articles> Jeremy Andrews
For
years Jeremy Andrews has had a studio at Wysing arts in Bourn, south-west
of Cambridge. There he produces portraits which at first glance appear photo-realistic,
but which, he says, delves deeper than any photograph would. ‘I don’t
regard my pictures as photo-realism, although I do of course go for a realistic
representation. I try to achieve a quality more representative of the person
as a character.’ The attention to detail, the colouring and the texture
of flesh and hair are, in many ways, highly realistic, but there is a heightened
sense of the person in them that is usually absent from photographs.
As Jeremy explains in his website, he explores ‘the notion of self-image
and how we see ourselves and, of course, how others perceive us, suggesting
that there is something inherently voyeuristic about our culture.’
Many of his pictures feed this point back to the viewer by making the face
on the canvas confrontationally direct in a way that dares them to look
away. This is particularly evident in the cases of the people with disabilities
who were on a working project at Wysing. Jeremy received an Arts Council
grant for 2004/2005 to create a number of paintings of these subjects. He
approached this by getting them firstly to photograph each other. He then
painted from the photographs so that his own viewpoint was filtered through
theirs...
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Jeremy Andrews has recently begun showing at Williams Gallery on Gwydir
St in Cambridge. For more about Jeremy, visit Jeremy
Andrews and Wysing
Arts Centre.
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