My current works are a response to aspects of 
the urban environment. Shapes, surfaces, textures 
and spatial relationships all play a role in the works' 
creation, as does a series of opposites: 
abstraction and representation,the surface 
and what lies beneath it,presence and absence,
the actual and the implied.
The play of opposites helps give the works an 
ambiguity and a meditative quality. 
I began painting works of a more abstract nature 
in 1994.Prior to that I had created paintings that were 
figurative or semi-abstract.Landscape (in a broad 
sense) has always been of interest to me as a 
starting point for artworks.
For a long time I have been interested in the crossover 
between painting and sculpture.
I have therefore gradually increased the use of 
collage and found objects in my artworks since 1997.
My interest in abstraction continues, specifically 
abstracting from aspects of the built environment. 
Recently I have become more interested in the face 
as a subject - real faces, imagined faces, the Self 
and the Psyche, and am exploring that through several 
bodies of work.
I am currently enrolled in postgraduate studies at 
the Qld. College of Art (South Bank campus). 
 Robert Andrews - May 2005. Updated January 2009.


 
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