Andrew Grassie

Andrew Grassie (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. Grassie paints highly detailed and self-referential tempera on paper copies of photographs.

He was educated at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art.^[1]

Grassie's work of the late 1990s and early 2000s included tempera on paper studies of the gallery interior in which they were exhibited (1997),^[2] and small copies of photographs of 1960s minimalist sculpture (2002).^[3]

In 2004, he won a "Special Merit" award at the 23rd John Moores Painting Prize for his work The Making of the Painting, which shows the space in which he made the painting.^[1] In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at Tate Britain, as part of the Art Now series. He exhibited tiny paintings of an imaginary "rehang" of works from the gallery.^[4] To make the paintings Grassie moved the actual works to the exhibition space, photographed them, and then made copies of the photographs in tempera.^[5]

His paintings have been praised for being "disorienting" and "melancholy",^[5] and criticised for consisting of "bureaucratic ironies".^[4]

His works are held in the collection of the Tate^[6] and the United Kingdom Government Art Collection.^[7] He lectures at City and Guilds of London Art School.

Andrew Grassie is represented by Maureen Paley in London.

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