ANDREW MAUGHAN
ANDREW MAUGHAN
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Maughan was born in the United Kingdom in 1987.
After enrolling in North Umbria University, he graduated in 2009 with a BFA, with honors. Today, the artist is furthermore expanding his academic background, taking on a Master of Arts in the Royal Academy of Arts.
In Maughan’s paintings, the sinister is consistently undermined by the mundane. Portraits of a Zodiac-like figure named the Great Assassin, show him guilty of little more than doing nothing: smoking cigarettes and eating ice-cream. His passivity in the face of climate change addresses a specific, familiar brand of moral ambiguity: an awareness of being complicit in the problems of the world, but slow to sacrifice comfort for the cause. Calling on classic spy tropes and suspect photographs, the Great Assassin series seeks to address the role of the media in generating public fear and paranoia, and the political consequences therein.
Maughan is currently based in London, where he continues to gain considerable local and international exposure.
TIMELINE
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 Young Dreams, Août Gallery- Beirut, Lebanon
- 2020 Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts- London, UK
- 2019 Return of the Great Assassin, (SOLO) NewBridge Project – Gateshead, UK
- 2018 Land Grab, Royal Academy Schools, Sadie Coles HQ – London, UK
- 2017 Worried Mother, Workplace Gallery – Gateshead, UK
- 2016 Dangerous Cliffs – Glasgow, UK
- 2016 Nice Waves, NewBridge Project – Newcastle, UK
- 2016 Five Jobs+, Metal, Albert Dock – Liverpool, UK
- 2016 McCallister’s, Glasgow International – Glasgow, UK
- 2015 North, IKON Gallery – Birmingham, UK
- 2014 Chicken Town, Supercollider – Blackpool, UK
- 2014 Public Sculptures, (SOLO) New Bridge Projects – Newcastle, UK
- 2013 Riff/t, BALTIC39 – Newcastle, UK
- 2013 Deuce Deuce, Generator Projects – Dundee, UK
- 2013 Jesmonite on Paper, A3 Project Space – Birmingham, UK
- 2013 Jesmonite on Paper, Malgras|Naudet – Manchester, UK
- 2013 Now You See It, Now You Don’t, Terrace Studios – London, UK
- 2013 Summer Fete, Ceri Hand Gallery – London, UK
- 2013 A3 Works, A3 Project Space – Birmingham, UK
- 2012 CAVE, Liverpool Biennial – Liverpool, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2011 I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move, Rouge – Manchester, UK
- 2011 I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move, Northend Gallery – Detroit, USA
- 2011 I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move, Royal Standard – Liverpool, UK
EDUCATION
- 2018- 2021 Royal Academy of Arts – London, UK
- 2009 BA (Hons)Fine Art, Northumbria University – Newcastle, UK
- 2005 Newcastle College – Newcastle, UK
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
- 2015 a-n Venice Biennale Bursary
- 2014 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
- 2013 Arcade, Summer Residency – London, UK
- 2012 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, Touring Curated Exhibitions
- 2011 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, Two-Person Touring Exhibitions
Exhibition
Featured Art
River Rocks
Natalie Wadlington
Swimmer / Dreamer
Jin Han Lee
Night Skater
Jaeyeon Yoo
Night Rhapsody
Jaeyeon Yoo
The Grave Digger
Ronald L. Hall
