ANDREW NADOLSKI

ABOUT

Born in Derby 1964

Education:

1982 - 1983

One year foundation course in art and design, Derby Lonsdale College, Kedleston Road, Derby.

1983 - 86

Exeter College of Art and Design. Graduated with 2.1 BAhons in graphic design (specialising in design and photography).

1985

One of only three students, nationally, to be highly commended in the annual Benson and Hedges ‘Gold’ Awards. Entry exhibited with other winners at Hamiltons Gallery, Mayfair, London.

1985

Six months into photography studies at Exeter started series of pictures documenting the beaches of Newquay, Cornwall. Work continued on series after leaving college, exhibited at Plymouth Arts Centre ‘The South West Seen’, 1989.

1986

Spends two months documenting life in Blundell's School, Devon's foremost public school. Resulting photographs lead to first commission and then thirty year long association with the School.

1986 - 2011

Begins work as designer and photographer.

1996

After visiting the area for years, began photographing and documenting the landscape of a remote area of the Cornish Coast near St Just-In-Penwith. Resulting collection, ‘The End of the Land’, shown as series of smaller exhibitions 1998 to 2000. Various locations in the South West including:

Exeter Picture House

New Oncology Unit, Derriford Hospital (six large prints purchased for permanent exhibition)

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

Torbay Hospital

Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro

Exeter Museum and Art Gallery.

2001

Major exhibition Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter.

2002

Exhibition at Camborne School of Mines, Camborne, Cornwall.

2003

‘The End of the Land’ exhibited in home city of Derby 11th July-31st August, Derby City Museum and Art Gallery.

Reviews include full page in ‘The Times’ and features on BBC Spotlight and local radio.

2005

‘The End of the Land’ tours nationally to Canterbury, Worthing, Harrogate and Hartlepool.

Reviews include coverage in magazines, The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian and features on ITV Westcountry.

Book published to accompany tour, features Foreword by Tim Smit one of the founders of the Eden Project, Cornwall.

2006

‘The End of the Land’ continues to tour in Northampton and Joe Cornish Galleries, North Allerton. Andrew Nadolski featured on cover and inside story in UK Outdoor Photography magazine. Major exhibition at Plymouth University combines ‘The End of the Land’ and new work from Brittany.

 

 

Present

Continues to work as graphic design consultant and photographer.

Photographic work featured in:

Arts West magazine, Amateur Photography. Conde Nast Traveller, British Journal of Photography, Outdoor Photography

(cover and lead article).

 

Books

The End of the Land. Published by Headon House

Boarding School - Blundell's 1986. Published by Headon House

 ‘Photo Projects’ Chris Dickie. Published by Argentum 2006.