Andrew Cheetham

Interview with Andrew Cheetham, September 2011

What attracts you to the sea as a subject?

AC: With the sea you’re left alone. But aloneness isn’t what I’m trying to convey. I don’t want my paintings to be empty. I want them to be empty and full. But I haven’t found a way of doing that yet. I’m drawing decay, the process of life. I find it amusing and slightly depressing: the fact that nothing lasts. Nothing is permanent.

You’re trying to capture something in constant motion. How do you manage to work with such a changeable subject?

Andrew is again taking part in North Yorkshire Open Studios.
This year he is showing his work at South Street Gallery, Scarborough
Open Studios takes place on 10th, 11th, 12th June and 18th and 19th June, 10.30am - 5.30pm.
More information can be found here...
North Yorkshire Open Studios

Andrew recently featured in an article in the Yorkshire Post Magazine.
The article concentrated on his work documenting Scarborough's Fishing Industry and working on the harbour.
The magazine was published with the Saturday 28th May 2011 edition of The Yorkshire Post.

An Exhibition at the 'Inspired by...' Gallery, The North York Moors National Park Centre, Danby, YO21 2NB.

The four elements inspire the artists Andrew Cheetham, Jim Wright, Andrea Bailey and Elisabeth Bailey in their interpretation of landscape and nature.

Join the artists for the preview on Wednesday 27th April 2 - 5pm.
Exhibition runs :
Thursday 28th April to Tuesday 10th May.
Free Entry 10am - 5pm daily.

Andrew is the Featured Artist for the Summer Exhibition at the South Street Gallery on Scarborough's South Cliff.
Please join us for the opening on Friday 23rd July 7 - 9pm.
The Exhibition runs until 19th September - open: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12 - 5pm and Sundays 12 - 4pm.
For more information please click here.

Andrew will once again be participating in North Yorkshire Open Studios, this year he will be based back in his studio in the bait shed on Scarborough's West Pier.

During the weekends of 11/12/13 & 19/20 June, artists and makers across the whole of North Yorkshire will invite the public into a host of intriguing spaces. From hidden locations on the North Yorkshire Moors and harbourside huts in Whitby and Scarborough to suburban living rooms in Harrogate and beautiful back gardens in the remote Yorkshire Dales.

Andrew will be exhibiting work from his year spent as artist in residence in Rosedale.
The exhibition will feature new work created by six artists during residencies in North Yorkshire and will take place at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate between 12 June and 18 July.
Work by artists in residence at North Yorkshire heritage sites: Fiona Bowley at Studley Royal, Serena Partridge at Harrogate Museums, Lynne Glazzard at Whitby Museum, Tessa Bunney at Newby Hall, Andrew Cheetham in Rosedale and Jackie Hunt at Malham Tarn.

An Exhibition of paintings by Andrew Cheetham and photographs by Anna Howell.
Drawings, paintings and photographs of Yorkshire and its stunning scenery as seen from the railway.

Bianco Nero Gallery
14 Bridge Road
Stokesley
North Yorkshire
TS9 5AA

14th May to 19th June 2010

An Exhibition of Printmaking, Drawing and Sculpture
The Triton Gallery, Sledmere House, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 3XG

Dawn Brooks, Andrew Cheetham, Tracy Himsworth

Three artists who all live in Scarborough, each respond to their environment in their own individual way, utilising print, paint and sculpture.
For more information please look at The Triton Gallery, Sledmere

An exhibition inspired by the heritage of Rosedale Abbey on the North Yorkshire Moors takes place in the remote location of the Updale Reading Room, Rosedale on the 5th and 6th December.

Artist Andrew Cheetham has spent a year exploring Rosedale and the surrounding moors. He has been documenting the remains of the Iron Ore Mines and rows of cottages along with the marker stones and trods of the moors. He has also been working on paintings of the landscape capturing the effects of the changing seasons.