Andrew Hayim de Vries began making art in 1977 after graduating from art
school and has
since continued
to make art that is provocative, unusual and engaging.
His art, while disparate in form, has maintained a set
of cultural concerns
examining our relationships with history, contemporary phenomena and the
difficulty of securing personal identity in a world
culture of political, social and
spiritual complexity and contradiction.
He persistently uses humour as a way of negotiating these
difficulties
as a means of not only engaging with his audience but as a subversive
tool in presenting art that demands considered thought and attention
leading to insight.
100 Hubble was a 20 year obsession, (and he now acknowledges
it became at the end a
dysfunctional relationship), and was sold in early 2005.
as an artist dealing with notions of the past, present and future where content is being explored.