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Biography
Garry
Andrews is a multi-award winning Australian artist who has achieved
an extensive track record of more than 60 Solo and group exhibitions,
including drawing survey exhibitions at Queensland Art Gallery.
His
works have been purchased by Faber Castell (International Collection),
Jacaranda Aquistive Drawing Award Drawing Prize for emerging artists
and other prestigious
art collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Griffith
University, James Cook University, Caltex, Optus Vision and Suncorp.
Since
graduating from Diploma of Arts program at Townsville Tafe in 1981
he has undertaken numerous major commissions for Government and
corporate clients incl. Dept of Environment-Reef and Rainforest
Interpretive Centre, Cardwell, A.B.C.Television., Optus, Cairns
Port Authority, Brisbane City Council and Cairns Regional Gallery.
Founder and first chairman of Kick Arts. (A progressive artists
collective in Cairns). Instrumental in development of ATSI Dept.
Art Course Cairns Tafe (TNQIT).
Andrews worked as a muralist and community artist based in Sydney
mid -eighties, when working with Public Art
Squad on Harbourside, Darling Harbour redevelopment.He achieved
a high profile as a muralist with the historical ABC Greentrain
and was the subject of an ABC short documentary "Greentrain
Art" produced by Henry Prokopf. The mural Andrews produced
for the Cairns Regional Gallery was centre of a controversy and
generated huge media interest nationally and internationally.
Recipient
of R.A.D.F. Grant 1992 to research artist- run- initiatives and
concurrently work at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne.This
research was undertaken in conjunction with establishing Kick Arts.
Around this time Garry Andrews launched and operated his own commercial
Art Gallery in Cairns.
Recipient
of Arts Qld professional development grant (to train in web development
with Qantm media) 1999. Other successful grants whilst Chairman
of Kick Arts inc. e.g. for curatorship and facilitation of the groundbreaking
exhibition "The Fish John West Regrets" 1993. Andrews
completed his Master of Arts Visual Arts at Q.C.A. Griffith University.
He
is recognised for his draftsmanship and colourist abilities and
has been awarded over 36 Art prizes for Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
and Printmaking.
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“Garry
Andrews' paintings draw from a particularly Queensland tradition
of figurative expressionism that has enjoyed a long and popular
heritage. Artists who are a part of this heritage include Jon
Molvig, Ian Smith and Ann Thomson. Andrews drafting skills are
made evident in his painterly gestures, and his references are
both literary and poetic.”
Pat Hoffie-from the catalogue for the exhibition “No Emergency”
Fine Art Honours and MAVA students Queensland College of Arts,
Griffith University, 2004
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