Andrew Cranston
Andrew Cranston in his studio, Glasgow, 2020. Photograph: Alan Dimmick, Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
Andrew Cranston, born in 1969 in Hawick, Scotland, is a Glasgow-based painter whose narrative, often humorous scenes draw on his own personal history, as well as on literary and anecdotal sources. Sometimes painting on large-scale canvases, and at other times directly onto the covers of hard back books, Cranston pushes his materials to their limits; lacquering, bleaching, washing and collaging until images emerge that, as Na Kim described in the Paris Review; ‘invite the viewer into what feels like another person’s dream’.
Having completed his BA at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, Cranston went on to achieve his MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2014 Cranston was awarded The Arts Foundation Fellowship.
His work has been recently exhibited at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2023); Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France (2023); Modern Art, London (2022); The Royal Academy of Arts, London (2022) and at Karma, New York (2021). Cranston’s work is represented in the collections of National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Royal College of Art, London; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; and He Art Museum, Shunde, China, among others.
Andrew Cranston is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Karma and Modern Art.
Andrew Cranston is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Karma and Modern Art.