ANDY GRANT
Andy is a semi-nomadic artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide) South Australia but often working remotely from the back of his old Troopy.
Andy is a semi-nomadic artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide) South Australia but often working remotely from the back of his old Troopy.
Utilising multiple mediums; digital, analogue and alternative photographic processes, he strives to create immersive imagery, in which the raw power and subtle beauty of nature triggers a feeling of meditative connection in the viewer.
Memory has a profound influence on how and where Andy works, on what he produces and why he produces it. As a child his family lived in dense bush, on a hilltop close to the Southern Ocean. The constant pounding of waves, the howling of wind in the trees and the smells of the bush and ocean, were all encompassing. To live there was to marinate in the raw elements. There was no other choice.
Decades later, memories of wandering labyrinthine bush tracks, struggling up towering sand hills and being beaten by sea-spray laden winds, still hum away in Andy’s psyche. The sights, sounds and smells of that wild coast, have instilled in him a deep reverence and a strong desire to help protect natural unspoiled places.
His hope is that he can capture some of that natural hum in the images and that they act as a conduit to remind the viewer that they are a part of nature, not apart from it. Everything is connected.