Andrew Lord was born and brought up in Lancashire, UK and studied in London in the late 1960s, spending much time exploring the Victoria & Albert Museum collections as well as studying the works of the Della Robbia Studio in Florence. Continuing his exploration of ceramics, he worked in Delft and discovered Meissen porcelain and Staffordshire ceramics. Using Rotterdam as his base in the 1970s, his frequent trips to Paris introduced him to the ceramics of Paul Gauguin and to the paintings of Monet, Cézanne, Picasso and Cubism. His oeuvre has been large and steady over a period of 25 years. Andrew Lord is part of a generation of artists that include Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Tony Cragg and Sandro Chia and others, who, by distancing themselves from the aestheticism and rigors characteristic of Conceptualism and Minimalism in favour of a more sensual, narrative and less restrained artistic expression, contributed to a generational shift in art during the 1980’s. Andrew Lord is resident of the renowned Residence Cité International de Paris in 2014.
