Andy Winter

Andy Winter
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

STATEMENT

I’m a collage artist who uses abstraction, geometric patterns, and analogue attempts at recreating the effects of digital glitching to explore issues of identity, memory, masculinity, societal expectation, and social class.

I work mainly with pages and covers from magazines, mostly folding and tearing (but occasionally cutting) to reappropriate and juxtapose images in fractured and fragmented form. Whilst there are occasional larger pieces, most work is on common A4 paper that is easy to acquire, easy to digitally scan, and easy to frame. That immediacy is important – a demonstration of how art and artistic thought should be accessible to all as the issues covered in the work affect everyone.

Built layer upon layer, the pictures take a long time to create and are densely detailed, with care taken to consider both the images used and how the placement on the page both reveals and hides different elements, symbolic of how in both our identities and in wider society only certain things are overt whilst other things are intentionally or inadvertently concealed.

BIO

Andy Winter is a self taught artist. Based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom but originally from County Durham, he took up collage making in 2003 having been frustrated at the lack of opportunity for creativity in his day job. Initially embarrassed of his artistic output, he has over time become more confident and has looked for more and more places where his pictures can gain visibility. His work can be found on Instagram, with artist notes and occasional musings at his blog.

ARTIST CONTACT

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andywinter26.wordpress.com
INSTAGRAM

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