Andrew Friend is an artist and designer who’s work explores experience, and the relationship between people, landscape, and their desires. He is interested in the extraordinary, fantastic and desirable (or indeed undesirable) experiences and outcomes that may result from these interactions. His work spans a range of media, through narrative and drawings to large scale physical objects designed to promote, facilitate, and question these experiences, examining relationships between the known and unknown, the real and imagined in the individual quest to harness the sublime.
Andrew holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, prior to studying at the RCA Andrew trained in architecture at the Bartlett in London, he is currently associate lecturer in the department of spatial practices, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
Selected Exhibitions
Oct 2011_What if?, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Sept 2011_Glitch fiction, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France
2011_ Sense and Sensing, Work Gallery, London, UK
2011_ I am Solitary, Beers Lambert contemporary art, Gift 10 Vyner Gallery, London, UK
2011_ Micronations Revolution, Nelly Ben Hayeon, Shunt, London UK
2011_ Made Up, Artcenter Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA
2010_ Annual One, Space in Between, London, UK
2010_ INTER;ALTER Space in between, London UK
2010_ Suspending Disbelief, Lighthoue, Brighton, UK
2010 _ What it?, Wellcome Trust Windows, London UK
2010_ Show Two, Royal College of Art, London UK
2010_ Impact! Gallery, Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenhan, UK
2010_ Impact!, Royal College of Art/ EPSRC, London, UK
2009_ IDF Design, San Francisco, USA
Awards
2006 UCL / Bartlett Donaldson Medal
2006 RIBA Presidents Medals Nomination
Lcctures
2009_Nuisance Machines, IDF 2009, San Francisco, USA
Teaching
2010-11_ Associate lecturer, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
2010_Guest critic Westminster University, London, UK
2009-11_Guest critic Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
Education
2010_ MA(RCA) Design Interactions_ Royal College of Art, London
2006_ Bsc Architecture (1st Class) _ Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London