RogueStudios 30@30 #6 Andrew McDonald

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community. 

In this episode I speak to Andrew McDonald. Andy has exhibited nationally and internationally, including with MIMA, Castlefield Gallery, Chapter, The Grundy Gallery, and was featured in British Art Show 6. McDonald’s making process is intense, extended periods of drawing and production demanding months of the artist’s time, Be this animation or large-scale ink drawing. Imagery of caves, lightning bolts or pieces of rope are drawn with a line of nervous energy. McDonald is preoccupied with romantic notions of the tortured artist and its place in modernism something he finds equally heroic and absurd.

You can find Andy’s work @andrewmcdonald4279  

To mark Rogue’s 30th anniversary we will be showing two group exhibitions during open studios - ‘Soft Proof’ featuring work from studio members past and present curated by Short Supply, celebrating the unfinished, the in-progress, and the unapologetically imperfect and ‘From the Shadow’ - new work by Ten Obstructions.

📍 Save the date:

🗓 Saturday 20th September, 12–8pm

📍 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1

Over 100 artists’ studios to explore inside the historic Varna Street School! 🏫

From the Shadow runs September 6th – 28th and Soft Proof September 20th until 5th  October.

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