Andrew Squire
Artist Biography
Andrew Squire has travelled and exhibited widely across the world, with recent shows residencies in Iceland, Glasgow, Canada, London, and Nepal. Squire’s work is deceptively simplistic, primarily depicting animals in pairs or isolation on a solid colour plane- placing emphasis on the figure and possible narrative developing around it.
Graduating from the Manchester University School of Architecture in 1979, Squire went on to join the Transmission Artist’s Collective in Glasgow during his early career. The artist completed multiple residencies around the world, honing his personal style and expanding his views on environmental crises and wildlife conservation, suggesting the complexities of humankind’s interaction with nature within his work.
Andrew is a director of Lochaber Environmental Group and previously worked for Key Housing Association and ASSIST Architects Co-Operative.
Residencies
1995 Residency: Akureyri Arts Centre, Iceland
2001 Residency: Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland
2002 Residency: Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu
2010 Art in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Selected Exhibitions
2019
The Summer Show, Beaux Arts Bath
2018
Resipole Studios, Acharacle
Stafford Gallery, London (solo)
2016
Thompson’s Gallery, London (2 person)
Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow (2 person)
Stafford Gallery, London (3 person)
2014
Stafford Gallery, London (solo)
2013
Thompson’s Gallery, London (solo)
2005
Thompson’s Gallery, London (3 person)
Skypark, Glasgow (solo)
2004
Galleri Excentrisk, Denmark
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Green Gallerie, Munich
Baillie Gallery, London
2003
Green Gallery, Munich
Courant d’Art Gallery, Paris
2002
Club Med Competition – winner
2001, ’03, ’07, ’09, ’11, ’13
Thompson’s Gallery, London (solo)
2000-01
Scotland House Exhibition, Brussels
2000
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow (solo)
1997
The Glenlivet Competition – winner
Scotland on Sunday/Noble Grossart prize exhibition
1996-98
Grave Goods: Crawford Arts Centre touring exhibition
1995
Hunter & Squire, Artbank, Glasgow
1992-99
RSA, RSW, RGI annual exhibitions
1993
Gallery Gram, Aalborg, Denmark (solo)
1990
Glasgow Council: Drawings on Buses
1987
Open Circle, Glasgow: German touring exhibition
1987-91
Radical Scotland, Leeds Postcards, New Statesman: cartoons
1986
Contemporary Art from Glasgow: Nürnberg, Germany
1984
Winning Hearts and Minds: Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1983
Urban Life: Transmission Gallery, Glasgow