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AP3 Falling

Two Person exhibition with Thai 'National Artist' Panya Vijinthanasarn: AP3 Falling Sitting in an unusually hot steamy London this July thinking about my forthcoming exhibition with Panya in an even hotter Bangkok, dreaming of that sparkling city and its intensity- a dream lying ahead. Bangkok’s sparkling green lights, red lights, orange lights, a futuristic city bending around the river, fragments remembered: enormous golden and beautiful fading Buddhas, pagodas and boats on the flowing river. Justin’s music from the dark mysterious Smalls emerges. I am sitting listening to other exquisite music - Wax Tailors version of ‘Que Sera’ while considering the title of show AP3 Falling I dream of falling, of feeling weightless, floating down, flowing over the edge, flowing air all around as I dream into a floating mode. I float down the Chao Phraya River discovering new and wonderful remnants, glimpses of the old and new world passing by. Going deeper down, entering the magic unknown - there’s so much we don’t understand, but just like the title of the song ‘What will be, will be’ This exhibition is the third joint exhibition of Andrew and Panya, coming from different cultural perspectives the exhibition highlights their interest in the transcultural with both differences and synergies. In Panya Vijinthanasarn’s spiritual paintings he sometimes refers to fragments and memories of the past, exquisitely beautiful with hidden surprises. His paintings contain a secret and magical archetypal symbolism that is enhanced by their materiality. Andrew Stahl’s paintings also refer to past experience from Rome to Bangkok. These also symbolic paintings borrow gravity allowing the paint with its materiality to fall and naturally flow, thoughts appear and memories and expressive gestures conflict and encourage the pull of gravity. When we fall we lose stability and enter the unknown - the words from the song emerges – ‘Everyone I have something to tell you – the moment we have been waiting for is here …..Despite the instability of the era we live in ‘I believe in the future’. Falling and dreaming……… Andrew Stahl 16th July 2017

Monologue Dialogue 4, Mysticism & Insecurity.

The Monologue Dialogue series has grown from a British Council initiated and funded residency and exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand. From then onwards a series of exhibitions have taken place in Bangkok and London with an evolving and expanding group of participating artists. The last exhibition was in 2014 at the BACC (the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre). The key focus for the artists has been to install or construct work in a space/gallery together and in some way to reflect on the transcultural nature of today’s discourse for artists. Opening on the 3rd of May 2017 at the Koppel Project Baker Street, MD4 continued with an expanded number of participating artists from Thailand, the UK, Bangladesh, China, and Japan. The participating artists were: Eric Bainbridge, Rana Begum, Tintin Cooper, Yvonne Feng, Miranda Housden, Neil Jeffries, Sansern Milindasuta, Atsuko Nakamura, Nipan Oranniwesna, Be Takerng Pattanopas, Tuksina Pipitkul, Nathaniel Rackowe, Andrew Stahl, Kai Syng Tan, Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, and Panya Vijinthanasarn. The exhibition was curated by Andrew Stahl, The title of the exhibition Mysticism and Insecurity can refer to perceptions of the mystical and magical nature of human life across all cultures; insecurity however can refer to the inability of art to fully express and realise these transcendent ideas for multiple reasons, primarily though because of the world’s materiality, because of materials being resistant, dragging against intentions even for the use of language, and symbolism. This resistance is what is most ecstatic and interesting, where the material itself whether it is paint, objects, performance or virtual media contains the magic and frailty of our existence by being resistant to manipulation. The one thing that unites us all is our materiality and a sense of ‘is-ness’. The exhibition was supported by UCL Global Engagement and the Thai Embassy in honour of King Bhumibol Adulyadej Rama IX.

Hot Summer by the Khlong

A visit by Andrew Stahl to Thailand in the 80’s as part of a British Council show initiated a fascination with Thailand. A number of artists’ residencies and exhibitions have followed in the intervening years. Andrew Stahl exhibition at YenakArt Villa: Hot Summer by the Klong exhibits his paintings made during a recent residency near Bangkok’s Chinatown where he spent a large part of the summer 2016. The paintings reflect on the experience, memories and thoughts of this time spent working intensely through the heat and travelling to the sea. They also reflect on a journey to Rome just before the summer, which revived his fascination with fountains as a source of surprise and joy. These paintings have a new fluidity and flow. Momentary visions, thoughts, memories and imaginations coalesce into a whirlwind of fragments held together by an overriding sense of euphoria at the beautiful country of Thailand. The intense energy of the city acts as a contrast to the expanse of blue that fills the horizons of the vision in the islands dipped in the sea. The exhibition consisted of both large and small works, drawings and a number of sculptures including one made on the lawn in the architecture garden of the gallery.

No Monkey Business

A one day exhibition in the car park in Chinatown to celebrate the Year of the Monkey

DACS Foundation Auction

An Exhibition to raise money for DACS. I contributed a small painting called 'Gion Rain'

Home

This was a group exhibition curated by Paula de Ramos that took place in a house in Curitiba, Brazil which I participated in including the following artists: Kim Alexander, Lara Akinnawo, Nathalia Arduini, Camilla Bliss, Bea Bonafini, Eze Chimalio, Charlotte Chw, Juliana Coelho, Isabel Collins, Sophie Dixon, Cecilia Granara, Sérgio Gonçalves Jr., Phillip Raymond Goodman, Emily Harmer, Frank Harris, Lily Hawkes, Katja Heber, Miranda Housden, Summer Hung, Lara Jacoski, Stephen Kirin, Yane Kritski, Alexandre Linhares, Cassiana Maranha, Luisa Mazarotto, Alex McNamee, Diogo Messias, Liane Mestrinho, Jude Cowan Montague, Bruna Mush, Sissa Oliveira, Kaajel Patel, Miranda Pissarides, William Pham, Andreia Porto, Juliana Cristina Silva, Ayesha Singh, Isabelle Southwood, Andrew Stahl, Andrew Stys e Ana Tiene.

Salad

Exhibition including staff, students and alumni from the Slade School of Art, curated by Andrew Stahl, Head of Undergraduate Painting Department. Slade School of Art. Artists included: Ben Clarke, Reg Gadney, Simon Granger, Jumpei Kinoshita, Motoko Ishibashi, Neil Jeffries, Jin Han Lee, Alastair Mackinven, James Ng, Vaishali Prazmari, Ellie Pratt, Paul Richards, Liz Rideal, Babette Semmer, Andrew Stahl, Charlotte Verity, Virginia Verran, Barbara Wesolowska, Tom Worsfold and Vivien Zhang.

Starter

This was one of two group exhibitions that I organised at L' Escargot restaurant at the invitation of the restaurant manager Brian Clivaz. This restaurant has a well known history of staging art exhibitions in a public engaged space. The accompanying text was: This new exhibition ‘Starter’ of mainly paintings and wall works placed in the main dining area is the first of a variety of diverse exhibitions planned for L’Escargot in Soho. These artists here are chosen for their diversity and the discussion they bring to their field. The artists exhibiting both in this show and in future shows over the next few months in this new cultural hub are celebrated; some have immense experience and some however brilliant are just beginning their voyage of discovery. All however represent a tasty discussion about the possibilities that face artists making contemporary art today. A restaurant is a place of consumption. These works need to be consumed, savoured, chewed and swallowed. Some of the works may be annoying, some may fail, some may be awkward and hard to swallow, some will be exquisite, finely flavoured and full of delicacy and joy. They are all however operating at the highest level and variously engage with the exotic, the cerebral, the romantic, the emotional, the symbolic and the abstract. The show is organised by Andrew Stahl. The artists include: Phil Allen, David Burrows, Kate Bright, Jeffrey Camp, Alan Chan, Susan Collins, Dan Coombs, Graham Crowley, Jeff Dennis, Yvonne Feng, Marcela Florido, Neil Jeffries, Brighid Lowe, Alastair Mackinven, Mali Morris, Michael Page, Andrew Stahl, Mike Silva, James Robertson and Sean Steadman

(2014) Conversations: The Vivid Real; Two-person exhibition with Panya Vijinthanasarn

(2014) The Artists’ Folio

(2014) ‘(Detail)’

(2014) You Are Not Alone

(2014) 100 Tonson Gallery 10th anniversary exhibition, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija

(2014) MD3 Fragility and Monumentality

I am curating this exhibition - one of the largest exhibitions yet of Thai and UK art at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, the main public art gallery in Thailand. I personally will only have 2 pieces (one 6-metre wide painting) but in the show there will be a large quantity of work from the 12 UK and Thai artists in the 1200 sq metres space on the 9th floor. MD3 Fragility and Monumentality This exhibition Monologue Dialogue 3 continues an important conversation initiated 8 years ago in Thailand supported by the British Council resulting in exhibitions of a group of British and Thai artists in both Bangkok and London. The group of artists participating in this third exhibition has evolved organically to include new artists that are interested in this kind of diverse, international and unpredictable dialogue. The key words here are fragility and monumentality. This show illustrates nothing. It is not an illustration of a theory or concept; it embraces the poetic and uncertainty will sometimes surface. The artists will interact, fabricate, assemble, paint and construct this show – we expect an electric conversation with excitement and perhaps even failure. Failure and nothingness are key words in art and ones that can be embraced resulting in fragility and a vision that is unexpected. Monumentality is about presence, and can be about the awkwardness of being. Tuksina Pipitkul will surprise us with her large white sculpture, a new version of ‘Respond’ that holds the space; the complexity of Tintin Cooper’s pavilions provide a cross between sports stadiums and modern shrines; Nipan Oranniwesna is planning a new and ambitious installation especially for the exhibition; Neil Jeffries is making a series of small wall relief works situated somewhere between painting and sculpture; Nathaniel Rackowe will make sculptural neon installations with a strong sense of the urban; Miranda Housden will play with the unexpected attempting to suspend a giant chandelier from the ceiling; Panya Vijinthanasarn has made a very large painting touching on chaos and unpredictability, playing with the words nuclear and new clear and an image of the Buddha; Jedsada Tangtrakuwong will create a surprising and monumental site-specific installation integrating (or not) with the architectural structures in the space; Eric Bainbridge will arrive with The Ghost of Jimmy the Nail and will make a sculpture in situ; Be Takerng Pattanopas will install a 20-metre-wide new edition of gas-p which will include sound elements and comprise of two long tapered tunnels, leading to mysterious luminous counter-forms of human figures; Atsuko Nakamura will make a new sculptural installation, scavenging for wood and natural materials such as driftwood, salt, sugar, and water and will make a video; Andrew Stahl will include a large painting, The Death of Trotsky. This exhibition on the entire 9th floor of the BACC provides a nervous platform for an extraordinary conversation that will develop between the artists participating and their artworks. There will be a dynamic range of installations, sculptures and paintings from this extremely diverse group of artists that touch on a range of contemporary issues such as the transcultural language of art, spectacular painting and installation and artistic dialogue. The Artists: Andrew Stahl/ Atsuko Nakamura/ Be Takerng Pattanopas/ Eric Bainbridge/ Jedsada Tangtrakuwong/ Panya Vijinthanasarn/ Miranda Housden/ Nathaniel Rackowe/ Neil Jeff

(2013) British Art Festival Siam Paragon

(2013) Not Another Art Project

(2012) Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Invited by Tess Jaray to contribute some paintings to the specially-curated main room of small paintings; one of my paintings is illustrated in the catalogue.

(2012) 100 PRINTS

A group show of 100 artists who make prints.

(2012) CIRCUS TERMINAL Travelling Exhibition

This is a travelling show curated by Chutima Kerdpitak. Starting in London, it travelled to Spain and France, Thailand, Philadelphia, Holland, Suriname among others. This show looks at the boundaries between outsider art and mainstream practice. The exhibition was accompanied by a conference on the value of art education. Andrew Stahl was one of the main speakers.

(2012) CONFLICTS OF INTEREST curated by Brian Curtin

This exhibition was a 3-person exhibition curated by Brian Curtin at H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. The artists were Andrew Stahl, Thaiwijit Phuengkasemsomboon and Sujin Wattanawongchai. The show excites tensions and antagonisms for considerations of what contemporary painting practice is and does. Moving outward from purportedly traditional notions of painterly craft to vacillations between the intimate and the vulgar, the observed and the cerebral, art historical preoccupations and thoroughly contemporary experiments, 'Conflicts of Interest' seeks to highlight divisions rather than resolve them. This disunifying theme inquires into how, for example, the rhetoric of authentic expression can be reinvigorated by juxtaposition with the slapdash and ironic, without the latter losing potency. Further, painting’s vexed relationships to visual and material culture at large are acknowledged; between text and image; the streamlined and the visceral; the appropriated and the invented; the assimilated and disruptive; and form and formlessness. 'Conflicts of Interest' essentially takes a skewed look at conservative understandings of painterly methods and forms in order to provoke radical relationships and fresh perceptions.

(2012) The Perfect Nude

This exhibition was shown in three places. Firstly it opened in Wimbledon Space and then toured to Phoenix Gallery, Exeter followed by Charlie Smith Gallery in London.

(2012) Kindliness

(2011) Uncooked Culture, 'WhaTTo Dip'

'WhaTTo Dip' is the phonetic pronunciation of the Thai word meaning 'Raw Material'. I had 5 drawings in this group international exhibition in Thailand at Chiang Mai University Art Centre organised by Uncooked Culture. This exhibition contained 36 artists from 12 countries and was organised by Uncooked Culture founder Chutima Kerdpitak.

(2011) Unearthed

Curated by Neville Gable, artist-in-residence at the Olympic Park. 'Unearthed' was an exhibition and archive which sought to reveal the cultural history of Carpenter's Road Studios which used to be on the site that the Olympic Aquatic Centre is placed in the Olympic Park Stratford. These studios were managed by Acme and were occupied by 500 artists between 1985 and 2001 including by Andrew Stahl.

(2011) Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

(2010) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings, New York

(2010) Select

(2009) artbelowzero°, 'The Sneeze Art Flair'

(2009/10) Small is Beautiful, 'Nursery Rhymes'

(2009) Painting of the 80s

(2009) Two-Person Exhibition, ANYWHERE ANYTIME ANYHOW

This was a two-person show with Panya Vijinthanasarn. This exhibition continues the dialogue between Panya Vijinthanasarn and Andrew Stahl.

(2008) Small is beautiful, 'Love'

Part of an annual invitation group exhibition to make a small work for Angela Flowers Gallery.

(2008) Monologue/Dialogue II

(2008) Stew

(2008) Same as it ever was: Painting at Chelsea 1990-2007, curated by Clyde Hopkins

(2007) SOLO EXHIBITION Parasol, London

(2007) Small is Beautiful

(2007) SOLO EXHIBITION Sakura, New York

(2007) Jumbo Shrimp, Woburn Slade Research Centre, UCL The Slade School of Fine Art, London

Curated by Theresa Liang and William West.

(2006) 'Portraits', Small Is Beautiful

(2006) Heads

(2006) Monologue/Dialogue

(2006) SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITION, Panya Vijinthanasarn & Andrew Stahl; Conversations, Collaborations and New Paintings

(2005) Paintings from the Nineties

(2005) Royal Academy Summer exhibition

(2005) Figure, Place, and Time, Works on Paper

A group show of works on paper artists Andrew Stahl, Ray Atkins, Greig Bourgoyne, Stephen Finer, Roy Oxlade.

(2004) SOLO EXHIBITION Two Weeks in Sydney: Paintings, Sydney

(2004) Artskool at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts and Touring in France and the UK

(2003) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings and Drawings: 'Bangkok Mosaic', Andrew Stahl

(2003/4) 'Hybrid', Artlab 28 Imperial College London

(2003/4) Small is Beautiful, 'War and Peace'

(2002/3) Small is Beautiful, 'Voyage'

(2002) 32 Years of Angela Flowers Gallery

(2002) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings, organised by the British Council

(2001) Still Life

(2001/2) Small is Beautiful

(2001) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings and Drawings, Chiang Mai Museum, Thailand, organised by the British Council

(2000/1) SOLO EXHIBITION Neue Arbeiten

(2000) Artists' Choice, Flowers East Gallery

(2000) London Biennale Event; 3 Artists, Domingo St

(2000) Self Portrait

(1999) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings, Andrew Stahl

(1999/2000) Millennium

(1998) Graphic Works

(1998) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings

(1998) Flowers West Inaugural Exhibition, Los Angeles

(1997) Artists' Camp Sri Lanka

(1997) British Figuration

(1996) Life Live

(1996) 3 Painters at Plymouth Arts Centre

(1996) Culford Press at the Economist Building

(1996) SAD

(1996) Making A Mark - The Figure

(1995) SOLO EXHIBITION Andrew Stahl Paintings

(1995) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings

(1995) Flowers East, The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition

(1995/6) Culford Press 10 years

(1995) John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19

(1994) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings

(1994) Five Artists

(1994) Post Decadence

(1994) East

(1993) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings, Andrew Stahl

(1993) SOLO EXHIBITION Prints and Drawings

(1993) The Boat Show

(1993) Biella Print Biennale

(1993) Exquisite Corpse

(1992) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings

(1992) Selected Line

(1990) Alistair Grant and Friends at the Royal College of Art

(1990) Rome Scholars 1980-1990

(1990) MOSTRA 90

(1988/89) Contemporary Arts Society Market

(1989) Images of Paradise, Harewood House, organised by Survival International

(1989) Print Show

(1989) Whitechapel Open

(1988) SOLO EXHIBITION Andrew Stahl

(1988) 'Cries and Whispers', British Council touring exhibition of contemporary British paintings

(1988) Figuring out the Eighties

(1987) On A Plate

(1987) 150th Anniversary, RCA Printmaking

(1987) New Work: Six Painters

(1987) Collection of Alberto de Lacerda

(1987) Athena Art Award, Barbican

(1987) Artists' Choice

(1986/7) 'British Painting', British Council Exhibition touring to Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong

(1986) Walking and Falling

(1986) 'Living Art', Arts Council Pavilion, Ideal Home Exhibition

(1985) John Moores Exhibition, Prize winner

(1985) Animals

(1985) Still Lives

(1985) Selection from 10 years at AIR

(1985) Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Fifth National Exhibition

(1985/6) Riverside Studios Open Exhibition, London

(1985) 17th International Festival of Painting, Cagnes, France, selected by the British Council

(1984) Tate Gallery Patrons of New Art Exhibition

(1984) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings, Andrew Stahl

(1983) SOLO EXHIBITION New Paintings

(1983) Pagan Echoes

(1982) Seven Artists

(1982) British Drawing

(1981) SOLO EXHIBITION Paintings, Andrew Stahl

Bangkok Art Biennale