IAN ANDREWS MA RCA
RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2025
RHYTHMIG: Y GRONYNNAU, YR OGOF, YR YMENNYDD AR CORFF Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales. UK.
RHYTHMICAL:PART 2 part of Artist residency and mid-career Mentor at Stryx Gallery.UK.
2024
RHYTHMICAL: the particles, the cave, the brain and the body ,The Hive Gallery .Birmingham UK.
2022
REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS Forum Exposition Bonlieu, Annecy, France in association with the Laboratoire d’ Annecy de Physique des Particules for the Fete de la science.
POINT to LINE to PARTICLE The Beacon Museum, Cumbria.UK. (Curator Alan Gillon)
2021
MATTER MEDIA and ENERGY Studio-KIND contemporary art space, Braunton, North Devon.UK. (Curator Richard Gregory)
2019
COLLISION EVENT 3rd Floor Gallery, Library of Birmingham.UK. (Curator David Miller)
2018
THE SKETCHBOOK AND THE COLLIDER Rotunda Gallery, Aston Webb Building, University of Birmingham.UK. (Curated by Jenny Lance)
2016
TIDAL: HIGH AND DRY, SLIPPING GLIMPSE, WHITE GOODS Telsen Centre, Aston, Birmingham, UK.
2012
RUMMAGE OUT: FIND BY VIOLENCE SEARCHING Terrace Gallery, Great Western Arcade, Birmingham, UK. (Curator David Miller)
COLLABORATIONS
2025
ONGOING COLLABORATION with PARTICLE PHYSICIST PROF KOSTAS NIKOLOPOULOS Regular meetings and discussions, delivering exhibitions, educational workshops and events championing trans-disciplinary collaboration.
2018
MEET ME AT LIVE AGE An In-Public community engagement project with the New Vic Theatre, Age UK and Keele University, workshops with the West End Craft group, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
PEACEFUL POETRY An In-Public community engagement project with the Shakespeare birthplace trust including workshops with primary school and Mencap, live poetry event and exhibition.
THE PARTICLE EVENT With dancers Mairi Pardalaki, Fanny Travaglino, musician Alex Mentis and particle physicist Prof. Kostas Nikolopoulos, Hexagon Theatre, mac birmingham, Canon Hill Park.
2017
AGE-YARD-SHIFT An In-Public community engagement project at mac birmingham including workshop, exhibition and publication.
PRIMARY PORTRAITS An In-Public community engagement project at Primary Schools across Birmingham including Allens Croft, Alston, Brookvale and Ark Chamberlain Primary schools.
FEATURE Collaborative group video, on-line platform produced by Dan Auluk.
INTRODUCING PHYSICS CONCEPTS THROUGH FINE ART An In-Public community engagement project, University of Birmingham, particle physics Department with various schools.
2016
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE With Graham Burquest. Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK.
OBJECTS OF INSPIRATION An In-Public community engagement project, Innovation Birmingham, Aston science Park.
2015
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE With Dr Kostas Nikolopoulos, particle physicist, University of Birmingham.
CONTINGENCY PLANS With Ben Harding, The Lombard Method, Birmingham, UK.
2013
BABELLING: THE ART OF RAT CATCHING ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham City University.
BABELLING Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London.
BABELLING: PREVIEW Telsen Centre, Aston, Birmingham, UK. (Curators Ian Andrews, Dave Miller and Paul Newman.)
2012
COUGHING FIT With Paul Newman, part of the exhibition Going Postal, Departure Foundation, ITV Building, Gas Street, Birmingham, UK. (Curators Davie and Hollingworth.)
RESIDENCIES
2025
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AND MID CAREER MENTOR at Stryx Gallery, Birmingham culminating in solo exhibition.
2023/24
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, (SMQB) University of Birmingham. Embedded in a research team investigating the disruption of circadian rhythms in the brain.
2022
THE SHARED SPACES ARTS FESTIVAL Performative and collaborative drawing residency with yr 8 pupils from Warwick School in association with physicist Giovanni Rogers.
2021
MICRO COLLISION EVENT EXPERIMENTS Virtual residency at Smallhousegalleryuk, with artist/curator Eldi Dundee, Dolls-House Galleries, London.
2020
STRYX RESIDENCY : MAKING, EXPERIMENTING AND EXHITIBING NEW WORK Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham.
2018
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Research and Cultural Collections / Particle Physics Department, University of Birmingham.
THE SOUND OF DRAWING part of the group residency We don’t talk any more, live performances on non-verbal communication at Stryx, Birmingham. (Curator Dan Auluk)
2017
SOUP IV - SLOW COOKER, ARTIST RESIDENCY & TOUR two-month residency at Stryx, Birmingham. Tour -The Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. Meter room, Coventry. Direct art action, Walsall. Artists’ Workhouse, Studley.
GRASSLANDS 3 With Dan Auluk, artist/curator and architect of Grasslands. Grasslands B29
2016
GRASSLANDS 1 & 2 With Dan Auluk, artist/curator and architect of Grasslands. Grasslands B29
GROUP
2025
AGAINST THE SMOOTH, three-person exhibition with Paul Newman & Sarah Fortes Mayer. The Hive Gallery, Ruskin Mill Trust.
RBSA DRAWING PRIZE EXHIBITION, 2nd prize winner, RBSA Gallery Birmingham. Selected by Alison Lambert, Fiona Robinson and Brendon Flynn.
BIRMINGHAM OPEN 25, on the theme of Light,outside exhibition in Victoria Square, Birmingham. Curated by Ruth Millingham
2024
WALSALL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, 74h annual exhibition. New Art Gallery Walsall. Curated by Deborah Robinson.
ENCODED REALITIES, Artists working with Centre for Systems Modelling & Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham, Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK.
2023
RBSA DRAWING PRIZE EXHIBITION, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham. Selected by Barbara Walker, Kate Mason and Steve Bulcock.
2022
A HISTORY THROUGH OBJECTS innovation and research at University of Birmingham. Aston Webb Building, Rotunda Space.
WEST MIDLANDS OPEN at New Art Gallery Walsall, UK.
2020
NEWWAVE Viner Gallery, Wolverhampton.UK.
CATALYST Science Communication organisation at Michigan State University, USA. (On-line exhibition.)
2018
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Canal House, Birmingham.uk. (Curator David Miller)
THE PAIN PICTURES Direct Arts Action at BHS, Sutton Coldfield.UK.
2017
LITTLE MONSTERS Showcase Gallery, jubilee Trade Centre, Birmingham.UK. (Curator Paul Newman.)
NAWKI- not as we know it 2 hour programme of Digital / moving image works curated by 12o collective screened at locations simultaneously across the UK. Nine organisations involved, Eastside Projects, screened at Centrala, Birmingham, UK.
2016
ARTIST BOOK FAIR weekend event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
SELF SERVICE - ARTIST SUMMER CAMP ESP Members Exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
2015
SALON Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.(Curators Rachel Bradley/ Mona Casey.)
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Jerwood Space and tour. Selected by Dexter Dalwood, Salima Hashmi, and John-Paul Stonard. Coordinator Professor Anita Taylor.
GAP 43 at the Artist’s Summer Camp, ESP Members Exhibition, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK.
GAME OVER Newman Bros. Coffin Works, Birmingham, UK. (Curator Jon Wilkes, Transient Arts)
2014
MONSTER CLUB The Works Gallery, Jubilee Trade Centre Birmingham, UK. (Curator Paul Newman.)
BEORMA Minerva works, Birmingham, UK.
JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE Jerwood Space and tour. Selected by Gavin Delahunty, Dr Janet McKenzie and Alison Wilding RA. Coordinator Professor Anita Taylor.
2012
INVASION: CULURAL TAKEOVER OF A FACTORY SPACE AE Harris, (Stan’s Café,) Birmingham UK. (Curator Jon Wilkes.)
OUTLINED Artists from the Outline Drawing Initiative, Minerva works, Birmingham, UK.
AWARDS
2025
Second prize winner RBSA drawing prize exhibition.
2023-24
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for professional and living expenses and the development of new work from July 2023 to July 2024.The award of $22,000 from the PKF institution in New York is in support of Lee Krasner’s mission to advance the work of exceptional visual artists facing financial constraints.
The John Feeney Charitable Trust Fellowship, for the development of new work.
2022
Lottery funded Arts Council England Award for Point to Line to Particle, The Beacon Museum, Cumbria.
2020
Lottery funded Arts Council England Award during lockdown.
2019
Lottery funded Arts Council England Award for Collision Event, Library of Birmingham.
2017
Grant for the Arts. Arts Council England, for an In-Public community engagement project at mac Birmingham.
2016
AN top10 artist’s books of the year. One thing after another, hand-drawn artist book, selected by Sarah Bodman.
ARTICLES
2025
Science notes, article by Nina Beier featured in German on-line science magazine.
BUZZ, preview of Rhythmig: y Gronynnau, yr Oger, yr Ymennydd ar Corff, featured in South Wales listing magazine.
Interalia Magazine, article featured in on-line magazine, a platform focusing on art-science linked projects.
2021
His Dark Materials, Article published in Printmaking Today by Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow, UWE.
2019
The Sketchbook and the Collider, Article published in The Blue Notebook journal for artist’s books. Vol 13 No 2, by Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow, UWE
2017
Five artists from Birmingham you should know, on-line review by Culture Trip.
2016
Featured in The Artist’s Book Yearbook, Edited by Sarah Bodman, Impact Press, UWE.
One to watch featured in State magazine, November issue.
2015
In the studio with Ian Andrews, article by Dr Megan Wakefield, New Art West Midlands.
Emotional Art selected for Jerwood Drawing Prize, article Birmingham observer.
2012
15 Methods: 20 Questions, interview, publication and presentation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Q-Art/ Higher Education Academy.
Ian Andrews: Rummage out, review by Will Davie, Aesthetica magazine.
PRESENTATIONS-WORKSHOPS-PAPERS
2025
Workshops with the 7-up group, adults with learning difficulties, at the Ruskin Mill Trust and Argent college accompanying the exhibition Against the Smooth.
2024
Artist talks & workshops, Cadbury College A-level groups accompanying the exhibition Rhythmical: the particles, the cave, the brain and the body.
Artist talk & workshop, students with learning difficulties from Argent College accompanying the exhibition Rhythmical: the particles, the cave, the brain and the body.
Artist talk & workshop, the Friday club at the Hive Creative Hub.
2023
Artist talks & workshops, Cadbury College A-level groups to accompany the residency at SMQB, University of Birmingham.
2022
Artist talk, The Sketchbook and the Collider to The International Particle Physics Outreach Group at CERN, Geneva.
Artist talk & Educational workshop week for Point to Line to Particle at The Beacon Museum, Cumbria for primary and secondary school pupils and family groups with physicist Dr Patrick Knights.
Maker Monday 2, zoom presentation for STEAMhouse, UK.
2021
Artist’s talk, Microsoft teams presentation for M.A Fine Art students at Birmingham City University.
Visualising particles, workshops for children aged 8 to 12 and artist talk supporting Matter, media and energy, Studio-KIND. Contemporary art space, Braunton, North Devon.
2020
Maker Monday 1, zoom presentation for STEAMhouse, UK.
2019
Artist talks, teacher’s professional development sessions and educational workshop week accompanying the exhibition Collision Event at Library ofBirmingham for primary and secondary schools and community groups.
2018
Visualising particle physics concepts through visual art, Research paper. co-author with Prof. Kostas Nikolopoulos, published by the Institute of Physics.
2016
Artist’s talk at The Wilson, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
2015
Welcome to Midville, conference on art, money and the market, Artist Speaker. New Art West Midlands.
EMPLOYMENT
1995-2010
PROGRAMME MANAGER IN ART AND DESIGN Sutton Coldfield College, Birmingham.UK.
2010-2015
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, OUTLINE DRAWING INITIATIVE/ CITY OF 1000 STORIES PROJECT Birmingham Metropolitan College, Birmingham.UK.
2015-2019
PART-TIME LECTURER at Birmingham city University and the University of Birmingham.UK.
2016- 2020
CO-FOUNDER of the community arts group IN-PUBLIC, with Sarah Fortes Mayer.