Andrew Friend
Artist & designer
Andrew Friend is an artist and designer who’s work explores experience, and the relationship between people, landscape, and their desires. He is interested in the extraordinary, fantastic and desirable (or indeed undesirable) experiences and outcomes that may result from these interactions. Working through objects, performance and drawing his work aims to uncover, challenge and incite individuals in a quest away from their everyday, exploring the gulf between real and imagined in the individual pursuit towards a sublime. Andrew is co-founder of the international research platform and consultancy; ‘Very Very Far Away’, recipient of the Arte Laguna Prize (Venice IT), and teaches at Central Saint Martins and Ravensbourne colleges in London.
