‘Nowhere to Stand’ 1985
Lea Andrews
Lea Andrews was born in 1958 in Sonning Common, Oxfordshire.
He studied Fine Art at Brighton and at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1982 - 1987.
His work examines issues around the body, identity, family and site specific interventions using large scale photographic images, video projection and performance.
His work is in private and public collections and was included in "The British Art Show- 3", 1990, a survey of contemporary British art, and again in "The British Art Show- 5" in 2000. He was part of the first wave of Young British Artists to be exhibited in New York.
After a period of absence, he is making new work using digital photography and projection. In 2022, he produced images and a publication for an exhibition in Henley- on-Thames, Oxfordshire, based on a ‘censored’ school photograph from the 1970’s. In 2023 he was nominated for the David and Yuko Juda Foundation Award and received a Special Award. He has recently produced an exhibition at his own, ‘Dysfunctional Gallery’ in Catford, South East London.
Commissions have included 'The Hoardings Project' - Southampton City Art Gallery
'What’s Black and White and Grey All Over' - Riverside Studios
'The Sunday Photographer' - Photoworks and Publication
Artist in Residence - Tooting Bec Psychiatric Hospital/ Battersea Arts Centre
Photographer in Residence- Royal Festival Hall 'Ballroom Blitz'
'A Sporting Chance' - Whitechapel Art Gallery
inIVA review - Institute of International Visual Arts
‘Occasional Table’ 2023