About Andrew Friend (UK, 1985) is an artist and designer who’s work explores experience, and the relationship between people, landscape, and their desires. He is interested in the extraordinary, fantastic and desirable (or indeed undesirable) experiences and outcomes that may result from these interactions. His work spans a range of media, through narrative and drawings to large scale physical objects designed to promote, facilitate, and question these experiences, examining relationships between the known and unknown, the real and imagined in the individual quest to harness the sublime. Download full CV andrew@andrewfriend.co.uk Sugarhouse Studios 19 Collet Road London SE16 4DJ Selected Exhibitions 2019 Vessel For Darkness - (Permanent Installation) Padiglioni Invisibili, Fondazione SoutHeritage, Matera, Italy Erosioni - Fundacio Enric Miralles, Barcelona, Spain Border Crossing - Bridge Art, Garibaldi Theatre, Palermo, Italy Objects as Monuments - VVFA Live, Dublab FM, Los Angeles, USA 2018 Turning over a Mountain - Kjerringoy Bienalle, Kjerringoy, Norway Imagine IF, VVFA Performance - Tate Britian, London, UK 2017 Extreme States of Impossibility - Lands End Festival, Gagliano Del Capo, Italy Liminal - Palatul Cantacuzino, Bucharest, Romania VVFA Radio, Live performance - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2016 Another Excellent Waiting Room - Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich, UK A Step Closer and Away - Galleri Úthverfa, Ísafjörður, Iceland Ideas in Action - West Bund Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 2015 In Search of the Miraculous - Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, UK Default 15, Investigation into the Extreme Land - Lastazione, Gagliano Del Capo, Italy Project Ocean - Ultra Lounge, Selfridges, London, UK Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition - Nappe Arsenale, Venice, Italy 2014 Power of the Sea - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK Design and Violence - MOMA, (online) New York, USA Festival of Imagination - Selfridges Windows, Oxford St., London, UK 2013 Manual for a Fifth Empire - Sinei des Cordes Palace, Lisbon, Portugal Prophecy Program - Windtunnel Gallery, Artcentre College of Design, Los Angeles, USA Voyage - Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany 2012 Les Cascades de'l'infrareel - XPO Gallery, Paris, France Art Relay - KK Outlet, Hoxton Sq., London, UK 2011 What if? - National Museum of China, Beijing, China Glitch fiction - Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France Sense and Sensing - Work Gallery, London, UK I am Solitary - Beers Lambert contemporary art, Gift 10 Vyner Gallery, London, UK Made Up - Artcenter College of Design, Los Angeles, USA 2010 Annual One - Space in Between, London, UK INTER;ALTER - Space in between, London UK Suspending Disbelief - Lighthouse, Brighton, UK What if? - Wellcome Trust Windows, London UK Impact! - Royal College of Art/ EPSRC, London, UK 2009 IDF Design - San Francisco, USA Talks / Workshops 2019 A Familiar Unknown - Jupiter Woods Gallery, London, UK Facilitating a fantastic and searching for the (slightly) Sublime - Kjerringoy Biennial Nord, Stormen Bibliotek Litteratursalen, Bodo, Norway Objects as Monument - Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles, USA Sounding the Future, (Keynote) - Spotify Design Days, Alentejo, Portugal Introduction to Speculative Design - Fjord, Accenture, Paris, France Made in China - School of Machines and Make Believe, Shanghai / Shenzhen, China Artist talk - Chelsea College of Art, London, UK 2018 Very Very Far Away - The art and Science of Collective Motion, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Leonardo Journal, Budapest, Hungary 2016 MasterTalk - University of Northwest Switzerland, Basel, Swizerland Crafting Narrative - Officine Arduino, Turin, Italy Fabricating Empathy - Spektrum, Berlin, Germany 2014 Science Communication Conference - University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 2013 Prophecy Program - Royal College of Art, London, UK 2011 Design, Survival, Dignity - Royal College of Art, London, UK 2009 Nuisance Machines - IDF 2009, San Francisco, USA Residencies 2018 Padiglioni Invisibili, Foundazione Southeritage, Matera, Italy KLab18, Kjerringoy Bienalle, Kjerringoy, Norway 2016 Understanding Territoriality, Foundazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy 2015 Default15, Investigation into the the Extreme Land, Association Ramdom, Gagliano Del Capo, Puglia, Italy Colab Art and Technology Residency, Space London, UK 2014 Pangea Expeditions, North Atlantic Gyre Expedition, Atlantic Ocean 2013 Windtunnel Residency, Artcentre College, Los Angeles, USA Awards 2018 Finalist, Contemporary Talents, Fondation Francois Schnieder, Wattwiller, France 2015 Arte Laguna Prize, Winner, Land Art, Venice, Italy 2006 UCL / Bartlett Donaldson Medal, London UK Selected Teaching 2010- Present - Associate Lecturer Central St Martins, University of the Arts London 2019 - Present - External Examiner BA Fashion (thesis) University of East London Education 2010_ MA(RCA) Design Interactions_ Royal College of Art, London, UK 2006_ Bsc Architecture (1st Class) _ Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London UK
About Andrew Friend (UK, 1985) is an artist and designer who’s work explores experience, and the relationship between people, landscape, and their desires. He is interested in the extraordinary, fantastic and desirable (or indeed undesirable) experiences and outcomes that may result from these interactions. His work spans a range of media, through narrative and drawings to large scale physical objects designed to promote, facilitate, and question these experiences, examining relationships between the known and unknown, the real and imagined in the individual quest to harness the sublime. Download full CV andrew@andrewfriend.co.uk Sugarhouse Studios 19 Collet Road London SE16 4DJ Selected Exhibitions 2019 Vessel For Darkness - (Permanent Installation) Padiglioni Invisibili, Fondazione SoutHeritage, Matera, Italy Erosioni - Fundacio Enric Miralles, Barcelona, Spain Border Crossing - Bridge Art, Garibaldi Theatre, Palermo, Italy Objects as Monuments - VVFA Live, Dublab FM, Los Angeles, USA 2018 Turning over a Mountain - Kjerringoy Bienalle, Kjerringoy, Norway Imagine IF, VVFA Performance - Tate Britian, London, UK 2017 Extreme States of Impossibility - Lands End Festival, Gagliano Del Capo, Italy Liminal - Palatul Cantacuzino, Bucharest, Romania VVFA Radio, Live performance - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2016 Another Excellent Waiting Room - Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich, UK A Step Closer and Away - Galleri Úthverfa, Ísafjörður, Iceland Ideas in Action - West Bund Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 2015 In Search of the Miraculous - Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, UK Default 15, Investigation into the Extreme Land - Lastazione, Gagliano Del Capo, Italy Project Ocean - Ultra Lounge, Selfridges, London, UK Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition - Nappe Arsenale, Venice, Italy 2014 Power of the Sea - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK Design and Violence - MOMA, (online) New York, USA Festival of Imagination - Selfridges Windows, Oxford St., London, UK 2013 Manual for a Fifth Empire - Sinei des Cordes Palace, Lisbon, Portugal Prophecy Program - Windtunnel Gallery, Artcentre College of Design, Los Angeles, USA Voyage - Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany 2012 Les Cascades de'l'infrareel - XPO Gallery, Paris, France Art Relay - KK Outlet, Hoxton Sq., London, UK 2011 What if? - National Museum of China, Beijing, China Glitch fiction - Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France Sense and Sensing - Work Gallery, London, UK I am Solitary - Beers Lambert contemporary art, Gift 10 Vyner Gallery, London, UK Made Up - Artcenter College of Design, Los Angeles, USA 2010 Annual One - Space in Between, London, UK INTER;ALTER - Space in between, London UK Suspending Disbelief - Lighthouse, Brighton, UK What if? - Wellcome Trust Windows, London UK Impact! - Royal College of Art/ EPSRC, London, UK 2009 IDF Design - San Francisco, USA Talks / Workshops 2019 A Familiar Unknown - Jupiter Woods Gallery, London, UK Facilitating a fantastic and searching for the (slightly) Sublime - Kjerringoy Biennial Nord, Stormen Bibliotek Litteratursalen, Bodo, Norway Objects as Monument - Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles, USA Sounding the Future, (Keynote) - Spotify Design Days, Alentejo, Portugal Introduction to Speculative Design - Fjord, Accenture, Paris, France Made in China - School of Machines and Make Believe, Shanghai / Shenzhen, China Artist talk - Chelsea College of Art, London, UK 2018 Very Very Far Away - The art and Science of Collective Motion, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Leonardo Journal, Budapest, Hungary 2016 MasterTalk - University of Northwest Switzerland, Basel, Swizerland Crafting Narrative - Officine Arduino, Turin, Italy Fabricating Empathy - Spektrum, Berlin, Germany 2014 Science Communication Conference - University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 2013 Prophecy Program - Royal College of Art, London, UK 2011 Design, Survival, Dignity - Royal College of Art, London, UK 2009 Nuisance Machines - IDF 2009, San Francisco, USA Residencies 2018 Padiglioni Invisibili, Foundazione Southeritage, Matera, Italy KLab18, Kjerringoy Bienalle, Kjerringoy, Norway 2016 Understanding Territoriality, Foundazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy 2015 Default15, Investigation into the the Extreme Land, Association Ramdom, Gagliano Del Capo, Puglia, Italy Colab Art and Technology Residency, Space London, UK 2014 Pangea Expeditions, North Atlantic Gyre Expedition, Atlantic Ocean 2013 Windtunnel Residency, Artcentre College, Los Angeles, USA Awards 2018 Finalist, Contemporary Talents, Fondation Francois Schnieder, Wattwiller, France 2015 Arte Laguna Prize, Winner, Land Art, Venice, Italy 2006 UCL / Bartlett Donaldson Medal, London UK Selected Teaching 2010- Present - Associate Lecturer Central St Martins, University of the Arts London 2019 - Present - External Examiner BA Fashion (thesis) University of East London Education 2010_ MA(RCA) Design Interactions_ Royal College of Art, London, UK 2006_ Bsc Architecture (1st Class) _ Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London UK
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