Published 2002 Prestel London/New York
Author: Andrew Cross
Published 2003 Black Dog Publishing London
Published 2004 Film & Video Umbrella/John Hansard Gallery
Born 1961 in England. After studying fine art painting (Bath Academy of Art 1980-83) Andrew worked primarily as an organiser of contemporary art exhibitions and public art projects. Since 2000 he has focused on his own work and academic activities. His work has been exhibited and published widely, and to critical acclaim.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Mute Ubicua Gallery, London (group)
2016
Estuary Festival
Encounters Beyond Borders Kennedy Museum of Art, University of Ohio (group)
2015
Timacade (white hair) Turner Contemporary, Margate
A Green and Pleasant Land? Art Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston (group)
2014
Parallel Tracks National Railway Museum, York
Every Seat.. Canal Projects, London
Dakar Biennale
Mogadishu – Lost Moderns (with Rashid Ali) Mosaic Rooms, London
2012
The Solo/On Grass The Dye House, Nutbrook Studios, London
A Bucolic Frolic Mummery+Schnelle, London (group)
The Solo and other works Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (PuSh Festival)
2011
The Solo and other works Mummery+Schnelle, London
Savernake: A sense of Place Monika Bobinska, London (group)
2010
The Solo Ikon Eastside, Birmingham
Based on a True Story Artsway (group)
2009
This Land is My Land Artsway (group)
2008
Passing Time George Eastman House, Rochester NY
Passage Turner Contemporary, Margate
Still Film (Artprojx) Tate Britain, London (group)
2007
Passage Foundling Museum, London
North & South Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
2006
Delfina, London
2005
An English Journey Rugby Art Gallery & Museum/Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2004
An English Journey John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Foreign Power Soap Factory, Minneapolis
Beck’s Futures ICA, London (group)
2002
Some Trains In America Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
Some Trains In America Barbican Centre, London
2001
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (with Dan Holdsworth)
2000
Real Places? Westfälischer Kunstverien, Münster (group)
A Blunt Instrument…
is a sequence of fourteen images originated on large-format negative and published in 2025.
Featuring the traces of tracked military vehicles on the soft ground of Salisbury Plain. Part of the British Army’s
Salisbury Plain Training area, this is land my father farmed during the 1960s when the area was leased from the army
for agricultural production. It is where I spent an idylic early childhood, and in these fields would often play at ‘soldiers’.
The title A Blunt Instrument … is a reference to political scientist John Mearshaimer’s
observation on the use of military force for international relations.
In 1920 the RAF established a temporary airfield for the ‘policing’ of nationalist resistance. The operation known as Z Force
is recognised as the first exclusive use of arial bombarbment instead of air power used in support of ground troops. Therefore changing forever the nature of warfare. The site was adentified using archive photographs held at the RAF Museum, Hendon.
The Berbera – Harrar was a railway proposed by the British Colonial Govt. linking Berbera with the hinterland. It was surveyed in 1903 but never built. Detailed survey maps are held in the National Archives, Kew and using these as a reference I made photographs along the originally proposed route.
Images originated on 4×5″ negative.
Originated on 4×5″ negative
All originated on medium-format negative
Mogadishu – Lost Moderns
From a wider collaboration with architect Rashid Ali.
This is a selection.
All originated digitally. 2013
Images made in France since 2002.
All originated on medium-format negative.
A selection from a series produced on road trips made in North America and Europe which began in 1996 and is continuing.
Included are images published in Along Some American Highways (2003).
All originated on medium-format negative.
Found on Salisbury Plain 2015
Originated on 4×5″ negative
Forget Me Not
Andrew Cross, Anna Mossman, Philip Sinden, Mariano Vivanco, Denise Weber
7 March – 11 April 2026
Close Ltd, Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset
www.closeltd.com
All images copyright: Hannah Goldsmith
Estuary Festival 2016
Presentation of Water Based which was commissioned for the festival by Thurrock Council
Installed in part of the original 1930s London Cruise Terminal, Port of Tilbury
Hats off to Roy Harper…
Knebworth Park August 11 2009
On the 30th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s appearance.
All originated on medium-format negative.
During the early part of 1982 I was an exchange art student at Copper Union, New York. I lived on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. These are some of the many 35mm colour slides I produced during my time there.
