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Andrew Cranston Midnight In Manchester, 2022 Oil on Paper Signed verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Andrew Cranston (b. 1969, Hawick, UK) is a Glasgow-based painter whose narrative vignettes are culled from his own personal history, as well as literary and anecdotal sources. Education Manchester Polytechnic Foundation Course 1989-1990; BA in Fine Art Hons Grays School of Art 1990-1993; MA in Painting Royal College of Art 1994-1996 Select Exhibitions/Awards The Arts Foundation Fellowship 2014; Quality Arts Production Award, Creative Scotland 2013 Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council 2009 Rootstein Hopkins Sabbatical Award for Lecturers, 2006 Gallery Representation Ingleby Gallery ( Edinburgh) Karma ( New York) Modern Art (London) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These are two images exploring a nocturnal landscape, one specifically referencing the Inner city environment of Manchester in the late 1980s, the abandoned decaying modernism of Hulme housing estate, a community of travellers and their dogs and horses. I remember the horses standing sleeping like 'anthracite statues' as Dylan Thomas would call them. The other is an imagined scene in the Firth of Clyde. I was thinking of poet W.S Graham and painter William Scott exiled Greenock men who made their work out of the beauty and strangeness found in the domestic. Message from Art On A Postcard: Please do not bid if you intend to sell on the artwork. All artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for The Hepatitis C Trust and when work is sold on the secondary market, it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising