Andee Collard UKAndee Collard lives and works in Bolton. Making art everyday about art & the everyday he has several ongoing projects; he made daily drawings for 4 years and has been taking a self portrait daily for the last 11 years.
Andee’s current practice uses home made CNC machines, plotters to make analogue paintings and drawings. His practice is a hybrid approach that combines aspects of painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, design with coding, engineering, writing and education.
Collard's deliberate use of prosaic subject matter; traditional tropes like still-life or portraiture or fan based sci-fi imagery disguise a wider investigation into the uses technology, machine labour and the ongoing conflicts between human experience, aura and mechanical reproduction.
Bolton’s Most Wanted (2025)
1-12. 2024. Oil on canvas.
Each 31 x 41cm.
Rachael (2049) 1-3. 2024.
Oil on canvas.
Each 16x12 inchesPainting en plein air King Street, Wigan
Oil paintings all 31x41cm made during a six month residency as part of Wigan’s “Streets Apart” project.
A new machine was constructed on a vintage French box easel to work off battery en plain air.
Walter Benjamin series
Oil on canvas
31x41cm
“ Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
Walter Benjamin
“Everything is so new here that even the search leads to creative results. Technology is, of course, the pathbreaker here.”
Laszlo Moholy Nagy