Andrew Grassie

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Andrew Grassie (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. Grassie paints highly detailed and self-referential tempera on paper copies of photographs.

He was educated at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art. [1]

Grassie's work of the late 1990s and early 2000s included tempera on paper studies of the gallery interior in which they were exhibited (1997), [2] and small copies of photographs of 1960s minimalist sculpture (2002). [3]

In 2004, he won a "Special Merit" award at the 23rd John Moores Painting Prize for his work The Making of the Painting, which shows the space in which he made the painting. [1] In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at Tate Britain, as part of the Art Now series. He exhibited tiny paintings of an imaginary "rehang" of works from the gallery. [4] To make the paintings Grassie moved the actual works to the exhibition space, photographed them, and then made copies of the photographs in tempera. [5]

His paintings have been praised for being "disorienting" and "melancholy", [5] and criticised for consisting of "bureaucratic ironies". [4]

His works are held in the collection of the Tate [6] and the United Kingdom Government Art Collection. [7] He lectures at City and Guilds of London Art School.

Andrew Grassie is represented by Maureen Paley in London.

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  2. Neal Brown, From this moment on… Archived April 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , Frieze, March–April 1998.
  3. Ken Johnson, ART IN REVIEW; Andrew Grassie -- Sculptures, The New York Times, July 12, 2002.
  4. 1 2 Jonathan Jones, Andrew Grassie, The Guardian, Monday June 6, 2005.
  5. 1 2 Laura Cumming, Pull up a chair, The Observer, Sunday May 8, 2005.
  6. tate.org
  7. "gac.culture.gov.uk". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.