Paul Andrew has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1984 in media including painting, photocopy, photography, media, super 8 film making, video, installation and artist-run culture.
The subject keywords for his diverse practice spanning three decades includes: Quotidian, Polyvalence, Queer Theory, Queer Activism, Male Violence, Gender Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, Artist Collaboration, Artist-Run Culture, Self-Publishing, DIY, The Archival Impulse, Walking, Nature, Environmental Activism, Digital Analogues, Friendship, Documentary, Peace and Non-Violence.
The archival impulse of his life’s work stems largely from his discontent about the significant absence of queer arts and culture histories in Australia while making documentaries, community service announcements and video art in Sydney from 1990 -2001 at the height of the HIV AIDS pandemic.
Since his 1987 collaborative exhibition Sex/Object with artists Angelina Martinez and Martyn Sommer he has worked with neglected queer histories across various platforms and in recent years after relocating to the Northern Rivers region he has extended this archival impulse into other visual arts subjects and platforms.
Based in Brisbane until 1989 before leaving Queensland during what he describes as “the oppressive Bjelke Peterson regime” he moved to Sydney for work as a curator at The Australian Centre For Photography.
In Brisbane he was an active participant and co-ordinator of Artist-Run Culture in diverse Queensland-based artist-run spaces. These ARIs included F. Art, That Contemporary Art Space, That Annexe, Axis Art Projects, Bureau and Breathing Concrete.
During this time his attention was on young people’s agency and he worked passionately as an art history student, curator, artist, arts writer, arts administrator, queer activist, filmmaker, community broadcaster, moral rights/infrastructural activist.
His enthusiasm for collaboration and community contributions methodologies employed during this period has developed over time and remains a particularly useful model for him now in today’s open source and creative commons zeitgeist.
In 2012 he began a social media group for researching and developing a public archive, oral history and artist interviews site dedicated to mapping the heritage and neglected histories of diverse 1980-2000 Artist-Run Culture in Brisbane and Queensland.
Thanks to the amazing artist and designer Joanna Kambourian ( Lismore Art Space & Ms Brown’s Lounge) and partner Darren Bryant for collaborating with the Epicormia Collective over the …
Research and development on the collaborative ARI Remix Project: Living Archives, Artist-Runs began in earnest in November 2012. Four years on this project is now well into development, and …
Thanks to the amazing Jules Ober, visit my new artist web site here, thanks Arts NSW, thanks Accessible Arts, thanks Epicormia Collective: http://marionconrow.com and for a …
Q. Tell me about your visual arts background Marion, arts education, and when, how, why you decided to become a professional visual artist and what continues …
Q. Tell me about your visual arts background Julie, arts education, and when, how, why you decided to become a professional visual artist and what continues to inspire …
Q. Tell me about your visual arts background Jeremy, arts education, and when, how, why you decided to become a professional visual artist and what continues to …
Here at the link below is an hour (ish) long interview I recorded in September 2016 in my studio about my background as an artist, about my current work …
Working on my daily arts practice of repetition and remembering is the ethos behind my new series of work entitled: remember the milk. These are the two key practices …
Q. Tell me about your visual arts background Scott, arts education, and when, how, why you decided to become a professional visual artist and the long journey …
I work as an artist, writer and curator, and together with my five artist curator colleagues Julianne Zoviar Clunne, Jeremy Hawkes, Marion Conrow, Scott Trevelyan and Julie Barratt we …