About
Andy Grinham is a multi-media artist based in East London working in painting drawing sculpture and installation. He graduated with a first class degree from the Art Academy London in 2020 and went on to graduate from City and Guilds London with an MA in Fine art in 2023.
Influenced by cultural theorist Mark Fisher, he believes that art, music and carnivalesque moments like rave can transform our shared perspective of reality, we can leave behind individualism and a dreary work overload to rediscover a collective joy away from state control.
His work often uses ready-made objects and the installations are often populated with odd or unsettling forms: a ring of 1,200 rubber tongues waggle and glisten, mannequin body parts are cut up, spray painted and reformed, deflated sex dolls are crammed into a Perspex box, analogue computer monitors piled high and penetrated with pink lasers.
Education
BSC in Social Science, Edinburgh University 1994
BA in Fine Art, Art Academy London 2020
Studying MA in Fine Art, City & Guilds London Art School 2021-2023
Exhibition
2012 - Pop Art Now - group exhibition Assembly Halls, Edinburgh
2019 - Tenebris - group exhibition, Newington Library. London
2020 – Untitled – group exhibition, 155 Walworth Road, London
2020 - BA Graduation Show, Art Academy London
2022 - Spaces, Places & The Everyday - group exhibition, Crypt Gallery Euston
2022 - Meet Me Halfway - group exhibition, Art Pavillion, Mile End, London
2023 - Night Life. Loose Screws Collective. E8, London
2023 - Curtain Twitcher, Uncovered Collective, Garage Gallery, E17, London
2023 - MA Graduation Show, City & Guilds Art School, London.
2023 - UnCommon Ground - Space Collective, Koppel Project, Hampstead
2023 - Part of Space Collective, Espacio Gallery, London
2023 - Derelict, Uncovered Collective, Safehouse, London
2024 - Between Here & Now, Tabernacle Gallery, London W11 2AY
2024 - Tribute To Our Silicone Overlords - The Safehouse, Peckham, London
2025 - Annual Leave - The Artists Gallery, Bankside, London.
2025 - Hyper-normalisation - Uncovered Collective, The Safehouse, London