Trout House Replica & So the Red Rose / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre/ 11 Nov 23 - 17 Feb 24.

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Andy Abbott

Andy Abbott performing songs from the album 'Erewyrehve' in Vanda Chan’s houseboat, the ‘Arcadia’. 

Andy performed a collection of instrumental tracks on 8-String Baritone Acoustic guitar, with interludes on less familiar instruments, to take a dream-journey through a postcapitalist utopia called Erewyrehve. Acting as the closing chapter to a trilogy that includes 2018's 'Live on Daisy Hill' (Bloxham Tapes) and 'Dead in Chellow Dean' (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records), 'Erewyrehve' is the most optimistic and forward-looking set of songs; a musical line of flight from the bleak landscape and conditions under which it was composed in Bradford 2020.

Andy is an artist, musician and arts organiser living in West Yorkshire. He has a socially-engaged, interdisciplinary practice that uses embedded research-based methods to connect people and place.

Two mixed-tape cassettes produced by Andy, ‘ADRA Erewryrehve Arcadia' (54.24mins, 2021) and ‘Erewryrehve’ (37.22mins, 2021) were also included in the Vanda Chan Archive in the gallery.
As an artist he has exhibited internationally and undertaken commissions for Tate Modern, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, East Leeds Project and Yorkshire Forward. He has completed residencies for PiST in Istanbul; Convivio in Oaxaca, Mexico; and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy. Andy is currently the Lead Artist for the This Is Nelson people and culture strand of the £25million Nelson Town Deal in East Lancashire.

Andy’s formative experiences were in the DIY music scene in Leeds in the early 2000s. He is a self-taught musician and guitarist - performing solo and with groups including That Fucking Tank and NOPE – through which he has released records on independent record labels and toured across the UK, Europe and Asia in spaces ranging from squats and art spaces to large-capacity venues including Alexandra Palace in London, and Leeds and Reading festivals.

Andy is a freelance curator, producer and arts organiser. He was Visiting Research Curator for the UNIDEE Residency Programmes at Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto in Biella, Italy 2020 - 2022 and now sits on their Advisory Board. In 2018 - 2019 he managed the embedded arts strand of a Landscape Partnership as Environment Programme Co-ordinator for In-Situ in East Lancashire, and between 2016 - 2018 piloted a Centre for Socially Applied Arts as Producer Music and Visual Arts for University of Bradford.

www.andyabbott.co.uk

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