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Andrew Litten's dynamic and gestural figurative paintings express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and perceived identity normality or disturbance. Works are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion...
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Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in Fowey, Cornwall. He is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting. Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions each of which included publications at Goldifsh Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones was conceived with support from The Arts Council, UK and will be exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international private and public collections. He is represented by Anima Mundi.
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Andrew Litten’s life size bronze sculpture ‘Listening' forms the focal point of The Samaritans’ Listening Garden, supported by Project Giving Back, at this years RHS Chelsea Flower Show, in celebration of the Samaritans' 70th Birthday…
Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donations to Funding Neuro in Memory of Little Daisy Brooks and Ethan Cass
The donation has been made in the loving and lasting memory of Daisy Brooks from Bures, Essex and Ethan Cass from Pendeen in Cornwall who tragically lost their lives to DIPG…
Offering a unique opportunity for a poetic space to meditate on key issues facing our species and through intricate interconnection our entire planet, at a pivotal turning point in human history.
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
Andrew Litten gave a rare, candid and insightful interview with writer Anna McNay for Studio International to coincide with his solo exhibition ‘Concerning the Fragile’ at Anima Mundi.
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi were delighted to have been invited to present works by Andrew Litten and Arthur Lanyon at the 2020 edition of ZonaMaco Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, from 5-9th February 2020.
Anima Mundi are delighted to have been invited to present works by Andrew Litten and Arthur Lanyon at the 2020 edition of Zona Maco Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City this coming February.
Anima Mundi is proud to present ‘Protected by Alarms’ which takes place in the empty and derelict, Vicarage Flats in St. Ives. The exhibition provides an eclectic response to the confused and challenging backdrop of this moment in time.
Andrew Litten’s ‘About to Say Something’ is included in this years Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize Exhibition. The exhibition will launch in London before touring to Salisbury Museum, The Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf, and on to The Gallery at De Montfort University Leicester.
Andrew Litten is included in the exhibition ‘Made in Britain’ at The National Museum, Gdansk, Poland from March 14 to June 2, 2019.
'Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones' and 'Far is the False & Deceitful World', opened on 11th May at Anima-Mundi to great enthusiasm. Word has been travelling since with both shows already receiving big audiences.
‘Impromptu’, Andrew Litten's public solo exhibition of retrospective works opens at The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Andrew Litten's forthcoming, retrospective, solo exhibition at the Royal Cornwall Museum, consisting of paintings and assemblages made from 1990-99 opens on Tuesday 1st May
Andrew Litten is included in the exhibition 'Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century' which is currently touring in China.