ABOUT
Andrew Hardwick has a studio on a small holding near the Royal Portbury Docks. He has a degree from the University of the West of England and an MA from the University of Wales.
His work is landscape based sometimes large. He uses texture, paint and surface to reference ideas of change, memory, history and emotion within the landscape.
He has exhibited with the Millennium Gallery, now Anima Mundi, St Ives since 2011. He was elected an RWA Academician in 2012. His work is in numerous art collections world wide. 

CURRICULUM VITAE
ART EDUCATION

1995-97 MA Fine Art, University of Wales, Cardiff
1992 – 95   BA  (Hons) Fine Art, University of the West of  England, Bristol
1987 -90 Foundation Course, Bath College of Art, Bath

SELECTED  SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997    Deluge  Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
1999    Transient  Land  The Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
1999 Elemental Dynamics  Flax International Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2000   Between Land and Water  The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2001    Earth, Sea and Sky with Clement McAleer, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool     
2003   Veiled Earth  Otter Gallery, University College Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex
2004   Between land and Tide,  South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, South Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
2005   Fragmented Land, Folkestone Museum and Art Gallery, Folkstone, Kent 
2006   Forgotten Ground  Central Art Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester
2007   Atruim Gallery, Bournmouth University, Bournemouth
2008   Estuary Newport Museum and Art Gallery, South Wales with Danny Markey
2009   Where the sea meets the estuary, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, North Devon
2010   Tidal Wilderness  Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2011   Evanescent Earth  Millennium Art Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2013   Moor Millennium Art Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2014   Material Gesture Sidcot Arts Centre, with Nick Moore
2015   Scarred Wilderness Millennium Art Gallery, St Ives
2016   Palimpsest, Anima Mundi, St Ives
2017   Wilderness, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2017 Remnant, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
2018   Fragmented Land Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
2019   Edgelands Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery, Stockport
2019 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Street, Somerset
2020  Ground  Hours, Colston Yard, Bristol 2022 Forgotten Land, The Spring, Havant
2022 Wilderness and Warehouses, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot 2022 Last of the Silence, Anima Mundi, St Ives, 2023 Lost Landscapes Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon 2024 Wounded Land (17 February to 23 March ) Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2024 The Art of Making Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 9 Jan to 18 February

2022 Earth- Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022 Royal West of England, Academy, Bristol 2021 Bath Society of Artists Victoria Gallery, Bath 2020  Landscape Show Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall 2019 Emerging Landscapes Royal West of England, Academy, Bristol  2019   Summer Open Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2017    Explorations of the sky, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016   Summer Open Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2014   Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 
2011    London Art Fair, with Anima Mundi, Islington, London 2010   Autumn Show, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2006   Summer show, Cube Gallery, Bristol 2004   Partial View curated by Matthew Collins, Hot Bath gallery, Bath

MEMBERSHIPS AND WEBSITES
Anima Mundi Gallery (St Ives), AXIS, Elected to Royal West of England Academy 2012