Andrew Stahl

Who is Andrew Stahl?

Andrew Michael Stahl, born in London, is a British painter who lives and works in the UK. He is known for his large figurative paintings. Stahl is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Head of Undergraduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art.

In 1979 he won the Abbey Major Scholarship and spent two years in Rome returning to the UK for his first solo show in London at the Arts Council funded AIR Gallery in 1981. Since this time he has shown widely internationally.

In 2000 Stahl did a British Council funded residency at Chiang Mai University. Much of his recent work reflects on travels to Japan and Thailand and addresses the conflation of time, space and cultures that long-haul travel brings. Andrew Stahl's paintings approach cultural differences and connections using pictorial language, imagination and figuration. Images become vehicles to carry painterly experimentation. This was underpinned by a further series of residencies in Thailand, plus residencies in Australia and China.