Cliff Andrade MA RCA | rego dreams , 2020

Aquatint

56 x 77 cm

Edition of 10

Unframed

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Cliff Andrade studied at the Glasgow School of Art before studying MA Print at the Royal College of Art, where he was the Tony Snowdon Scholar for 2018-2020. He also holds a degree in Economics & Politics. A previous winner of the Jill Todd Photo Award, he has exhibited work at a variety of galleries including ArtHouse Jersey, St Helier (2022); RWA, Bristol (2020); Southwark Park Galleries (2020), and; Streetlevel Photoworks (Glasgow 2014). Andrade works with a diverse and dynamic range of media, combining traditional printmaking, photography & time-based media to explore notions that dominate his lived experience: belonging & un-belonging, place & memory, displacement, labour & poverty, hope & hopelessness and notions of family - and the emotional potency of the intersections between them all. He is particularly interested in the idea of ‘home’ and its importance to our sense of personal identity. Drawing on personal and social histories, his rigorous commitment to research allows him to weave many sources and references into his work. Often working directly with migrant and particularly Portuguese diasporic experiences, he fuses the personal and culture specific with broad references to relate to both the individual and the universal. In this way, he creates non-linear narratives that open up conversations and instigate others to reassess their own relationship to his themes. While his work is rooted in personal experiences, his practice reaches out touching broad and universal concerns such as a desire for belonging and a connection to place. Andrade's current research explores his themes through ‘walking as art practice’ and the articulation of that experience through printmaking. His audio essay, Bristoler Chronik, developed with Bricks Bristol, explores his approach to walking and the ideas it allows him to explore (available on Apple Podcasts). Cliff is a Tutor and Lecturer at Bristol School of Art and Cardiff School of Art. He is based at Spike Island Studios in Bristol.