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Plus One Gallery is please to present a portrait based exhibition by Andrew Tift, primarily featuring new and recent portraits from America and Japan.
In 1994 British Petroleum sponsored Tift to spend a month in Japan to develop a series of portraits which were presented at his solo show, ‘Sayonara Pet’, at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Last year Andrew made an inspirational return visit to Tokyo to develop some more portraits.
‘Portraits’ unveils some of his initial Japanese portraits of Tokyo life including the Jazz musician Isao Suzuki who played with the great names form the golden age of American Jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. There are also portraits from the highly flamboyant Harajuku Punks who congregate around Harajuku Park each Sunday and strut like peacocks together with studies of people that Andrew encountered in Ueno Park. Also in the show are character studies from Tift’s native Black Country such as Hells Angels and old steel workers that he has kept in touch with since his MA studies at the University of Central England.
He has exhibited in the B.P. Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery 10 times and has been shortlisted for the first prize on 4 different occasions. In 2006 Andrew took the £25,000 First Prize for his portrait of Lucian Freud’s first wife “Kitty”
Andrew has also won many other awards including The Japan Festival Award, The European Painting Award at the Frissiras Museum in Athens and the Emerson Group Award at the Manchester Academy of fine Art.
Andrew has exhibited at commercial and public galleries and museums in London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Athens and Santa Fe and has work in many public and private collections including, the National Portrait Gallery,(London), The Smithsonian Institution,(Washington D.C), The House of Commons,(London), The Frissiras Museum, (Athens), The New Art Gallery- Walsall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.
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