Andrew Litten

Who is Andrew Litten?

Born December 13th 1970 Aylesbury UK. An early interest in expressionist art lead to evening classes in life drawing whilst still at school. He then began art college, but commented that 'after a few years ultimately found it a restricting and claustrophobic experience so decided not to continue with art education. I wanted to find my language in the domestic and the commonplace, away from what I perceived to be the guarded, impersonal language of high art at the time.'

Litten traveled the UK to find inspiration within commonplace life, aiming to convey an emotive poignancy in figurative representations of the ordinary and the everyday. During the 1990’s, he began employment in photographic studios ‘finishing’ hand printed photographs. Employed in London and later in Oxford, where visits to Richard Hamilton’s studio encouraged a new phase of personal creativity.

Litten moved to Cornwall UK in 2001 with his wife Emma (daughter of film producer Christopher Neame) and their two children. He began exhibiting in 2002 with DICK THE DOG in Penzance and was included in an exhibition ‘Nudes’ (along with Epstein and Renoir) in New York City which was reviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES. His exhibitions have primarily been with independent artists run exhibition spaces. During the week of Frieze Art Fair in 2007, Litten exhibited ‘Dog Breeder’ in LIME WHARF project space in Vyner Street, London . 'Dog Breeder’ was made with paint and pubic hair and is intended to be seen in the Dada tradition of anti-art, commenting on the absurdity of the contemporary art world and its hierarchies. Litten has exhibited in curated exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, London, Venice, Sienna, Edinburgh, Milwaukee and New York.