Andrew Gilbert

Andrew Gilbert is a Scottish artist, born in 1980 in Edinburgh. He attended the Fine Art – University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art. In his paintings, he satirically reinterprets the history of European colonialism. Creating sculptures, paintings and mixed media, Gilbert’s work subverts and satirizes various aspects of British culture, in particular referring to the African Zulu tribe, which became an obsession for the artist at a young age. Gilbert’s works evoke his fanciful imagination in a faux-naive style. They were shown in many solo exhibitions including Gesellschaft Museum, Luebeck; SPERLING, Munich; Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa; Gallery Polad-Hardouin, Paris; Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg; Forte Strino Military Museum, Italy; Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam; Gallery Polad Hardouin, Paris; Galerie Andreas Hoehne, Munich; and Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, among others. His gaudy portraits and mocking models of imaginary military figures refer to Persian manuscripts and to medieval European sculpture.