Cities of the North East: Andrew Gifford
In his classic TV series Civilisation, Kenneth Clark maintained that the major
preoccupation of 17century scientists such as the astronomer/composer Herschel and
painters like Vermeer, was the study and orchestration of light. Four centuries later,
Andrew Gifford rehearses the same programme but in newly expressive ways. As a
student at Newcastle in the 1980s he painted landscapes that, with their filtered light,
paid homage to Turner. At the same time, influenced by James Turrell, he constructed a
series of light boxes, abstract landscapes, that were equally poetic.
William Varley
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Andrew Gifford, Newcastle Looking Towards Pilgrim Street (Winter)
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Andrew Gifford, The Navigation Pub and Middlesbrough Skyline
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Andrew Gifford, The Riverside and Navigation Pub, Middlesbrough
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Andrew Gifford, The Tyne at Wallsend I, March 2014
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Andrew Gifford, The Tyne at Wallsend II, March 2014
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Andrew Gifford, The Tyne at Wallsend, Study 1, 2014, 2014
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Andrew Gifford, The Tyne at Wallsend, Study 5
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Andrew Gifford, Towards St. Andrews Church, Hebburn
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Andrew Gifford, View of Spiller Building Looking East 2
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Andrew Gifford, Wallsend Highstreet