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Andrew Lim

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I use man-made materials in my work, often used or second-hand, to create sculptural installations by the establishment of a set of rules for their construction, and then following these rules to their natural conclusion, this is usually when the structural integrity of the form would be compromised and the form would collapse with another iteration of the rule, or when the physical constraints of the site stops the form from being able to grow any further. With the interrelationships of the objects that I choose, often they are impersonal and standardised, I seek to create sculptural forms that are organic and quite flowing, sometimes I disrupt the form with an intervening variable with unpredictable results, and this variable could be with another object or a feature of the site such as a wall or a radiator. The structures respond to the architecture and history of the site with the objects that I use having a history with the site in which they are situated, either in a past usage of the building or they are discarded elements found within the building. With the devising of the rules for growth the final form of the structure is determined by themselves, and gives my work an experimental edge because I can never have a predetermined idea of what the final form will actually look like, even the smallest changes can have a radical effect on the final outcomes.


EXHIBITION HISTORY:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
‘Pearce & Ramsey Summer Tour’, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK
Nov - Dec 2007

‘Catapult 07’, Urbis, Manchester, UK
Nov 2007 - Feb 2008

‘Done to Death’, 14 Gifted Children, Loxford Tower, Manchester, UK
August, 2007

‘Aerials’, MMU Fine Art Degree Show, Grosvenor Building, Manchester, UK
June, 2007

‘PANORAMIC’, 14 Gifted Children, Loxford Tower, Manchester, UK
April, 2007

‘Should we distinguish between This and That’, 14 Gifted Children, Loxford Tower, Manchester, UK
March, 2007

‘Edges of Reason’, 14 Gifted Children, Manchester, UK
November, 2006

‘Essence of Something Interesting’, 14 Gifted Children, The Triangle, Manchester, UK
May, 2006

‘Emerge’, Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK
March, 2006

‘Amalgamation’, The Bay Horse, Manchester, UK
December, 2005

‘B3’, Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts, Salford, UK
December, 2003

‘Dismantled’, Quicksilver Place Gallery, London, UK
April, 2001

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Andrew Lim - CV

Exhibitions:
Done to Death
Should we distinguish between This and That?
PANORAMIC
14 Gifted Children Present
Essence of Something Interesting
Practical Propagation
Sale at The Royal Standard

Publications:
Should we distinguish between This and That?
PANORAMIC