About the Artist

Claude Andrew

Born to two London artists in 1967, Claude Andrew arrived at this juncture in his life through various paths.  Rejecting an early plan to gain a university degree in artificial intelligence, he became an assistant accountant in the London reinsurance market.  When his brother, Felix, graduated and took a job in the United States working for a Redmond software company, Claude visited him for his first Christmas away from home.  That experience put his life and education in perspective, and Claude returned to London, earned a degree in computer science, and accepted a position with the same software company. 

Claude spent his limited spare time painting.  He took various art classes, and ultimately, left a software career to pursue a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts.  Upon entering school, Claude saw sculpture as an add-on to visual arts, much like music stands are to an orchestra.  Upon his departure, Claude saw it another way. He now builds representational sculptures, albeit not the literal representations that photography has taught us to expect.  His work is a replication of a moment, a sensation, a motion, rather than its appearance. He believes being aware of both the medium and the content distinguishes artists from engineers and consumers.  Under the cover of immigrant, Claude can experience a feeling for the foreign.