Agnew’s Gallery is delighted to announce its fifth exhibition of the work of Andrew Gadd, The Day Begins. The exhibition sees Gadd further developing his themes of isolation and social brutality, yet it also presents an exploration of new subject matter.

Several Cubist-inspired meditations on cityscapes and abstract concepts reflect Gadd’s engagement with a very different pictorial language, and represent a significant stylistic departure for the artist. These new themes, however, inhabit paintings that are still strongly characteristic of Gadd’s wider body of work; inspired by memory, imagination and the subconscious, they draw the viewer into a world of magical yet troubling narrative. The Day Begins illuminates Gadd’s foray into the intangible world, and reveals his enduring tendency to reject simple explanations in favour of spellbinding questions or uncertainties.

Andrew Gadd was born in London in 1968. He studied at Chelsea and Falmouth schools of Art between 1985 and 1990. In 1990 he began his postgraduate degree at the Royal Academy Schools. On completion of his studies there in 1993, he won the R.A. Gold Medal for painting and the Richard Ford Travel Scholarship to Spain. Since graduating from the R.A., Andrew has exhibited successfully at various galleries in London, New York and Italy including The National Portrait Gallery. The artist’s work can now be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Royal Academy, as well as in numerous important corporate and private collections.

Click here to see the press release relating to the exhibition.

Click here for a pdf version of the full exhibition catalogue.