Andrew Burns Colwill
Andrew is one of the original Bristol street artists (he was painting on walls when you could only buy spray paint in garages). He is both the alpha and the omega of street art - his work having recently been described as 'the next wave in street art - a movement of using fine art techniques portraying a powerful environmental or political message'. This can be seen in his recent Artic Scream at last year's Upfest, which received acclaim from art bloggers and critics alike. His previous piece for Upfest was named in the top 70 street art pieces in the UK from Getty Images. For him, the street art scene stands for a new revolution like the impressionists did at the turn of the twentieth century - "when ordinary people could at last express themselves and art wasn’t solely for the landowners and the church.” Whether on walls or on canvas, his work is fine art with a twist, and is simply stunning.
Watch the fascinating video about his 2018 mural 'The Gift' at the top of the page.
Artic Scream at The Coopers Arms, Bedminster Bristol for Upfest
Photography Neil Roberts 212 Productions
Interviews
Press
September 2019 The Whitehaven News Mural brings Whitehaven's history to life
September 2018 Bristol TV Inteview about Chaser The Dragon and the meaning behind the work
August 2018 Made in Bristol TV The Old Stillage Mural 2
August 2018 Made in Bristol TV The Old Stillage Mural
August 2018 Bristol Living Four Walls - one Mural
August 2018 Bristol Living Sketches Live in London
July 2018 Bristol 247 SketcheS
Julay 2018 Inspiring City THE TOP 25 MURALS FROM THE 2018 UPFEST STREET ART FESTIVAL IN BRISTOL
July 2018 Bristol Living Magazine SketcheS – Andrew Burns Colwill’s Work in Bristol
July 2018 The Bristol Magazine On Line Andrew Burns Colwill Sketches Exhibition
July 2018 Bristol Cable TV Art Battle Bristol
June 2018 Bristol Post This stunning mural has appeared in East Bristol - this is what it's celebrating
April 2018 Radio interview Backchat BCFM - to listen to the interview scroll down to 1 April 2018 and the interview is from 14.09 mins into the show
March 2018 Huffington Post - Street Artist Tackles Climate Change And Fascism, 1 Haunting Mural At A Time
March 2018 MSN News Getty Images - The UK's most striking streetart - feature Andrew Burns Colwill
October 2017 Streetart 360 - Best of Streetart worldwide September 2017
July 2017 Huffington Post- The Most Jaw Dropping Streetart
July 2017 Inspiring City - The Top 20 Artworks from Upfest 2017
May 2017 Interview with Steve Wright at Bristol 24/7 for 20/50 Vision.
More videos
Video by Scuba Lux Creatives
Blogs
September 2019 - Whitehaven - Andrew's V-log of progress of this 150 ft wall
August 2019 - Andrew Talks - Sharing
August 2019 Andrew's Bristol Baloons
August 2018 Interview Andrew Burns Colwill's vision for 2050
July 2018 Interview: New ‘ScetcheS’ exhibition for Bristol artist Andrew Burns Colwill – “I’m taking my work down a new alternative route.”
March 2018 - Candid article about Andrew B.C. in the Huffington Post
November 2017 - Fabulous live paint from Andrew Burns Colwill
October 2017 - Through the eyes of an Ostrich
October 2017 - It's time for society to take its sunglasses off says Andrew Burns Colwill
August 2017 - Andrew at The Greenbank
August 2017 - Seagulls
July 2017 - New collection of Andrew's prints at the Kane Galery
June 2017 - Interview Public reaction to 20/50 Vision
May 2017 - Interview Drugs, recovery, Greece and Bristol
May 2017 - Interview Tomorrow's Habitat
Through the eyes of an Ostrich - October 2017
Of this collection Andrew says: 'An Ostrich has it’s head buried in the sand, worse than that it’s got Ray-Bans on. This exhibition is about what I see things happening around and people just ignoring it, or not being aware of it, or being aware of it but choosing not to do anything about it but just carrying on with their lives. This will cause us massive problems if we don’t start looking and understanding the environmental impact we are having for our children and our children’s children. People have got to start waking up.'
20/50 Vision: Tomorrow's Habitat - May 2017
The works in Andrew's 20/50 Vision: Tomorrow's Habitat collection challenge our perception of how we will grow food and humans, our effect on the planet and how we will be fairing economically and operating socially by 2050. Beautiful soak stained canvasses with hard hitting themes and being Burns Colwill there is a fair amount of dark humour thrown in too. Add his affordable A3 giclee prints signed by the artist to your art collection.
Catalogues
Andrew's 2017 Body of work
Examples of murals and commissions over recent years
Through the eyes of an Ostrich On line catalogue
20/50 Vision On line catalogue
