| Code | DS/UK/495 |
| Person Name | Dewdney; Andrew (1948-); Writer, Curator, Exhibitions Organiser, Photographer |
| Dates | 1948- |
| Dates and Places | Born 5 May 1948 in Cheltenham
Foundation at Art school in Stroud age 16 c 1964
Cheltenham Art School, Fine Art Painting
Post grad Certificate of Education at Hornsey School of Art
Worked at Cockpit Gallery, London for 11 years 1975-1986 |
| History | After studies Andrew applied for a job at the Cockpit Arts Workshop in 1975. The Cockpit was then a theatre and performance set-up. The job ad was as an animateur in the visual team.
Alec Davidson was interested in the idea of integrated art, Howard Romp had developed tableau vivant with the Tate and Simon Wilson of the Tate Education Dept. So students enacted a painting from the Tate after a visit and talk using improvisation to explore the painting. Ideas around Adventure Playgrounds developed around this time and Dewdney had set one up in Lisson Grove. There were alsonew developments like free schools. Value of young people being own to change.
Dewdney spent the next eleven years at the Cockpit, and described it as 'one of the most exciting and productive of periods which ended with the end of the GLC and ILEA when the staff were made redundant'. In an interview with Shirley Read, he also commented, 'It was a place to resolve the strands of the lives of a post war generation who believed in social change and saw art and media as a way of transforming people's relationship with the world'. Funded by ILEA, ' The brief was to develop art within the curriculum in inner London schools, led by theatre. Between 1975-1978, the ethos of ' integrated arts' was the dominant idea.
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| Activity | Exhibitions:
'Being at School', Cockpit Gallery Holborn, 1 - 19 Jul 1985
More Than Black and White, Cockpit Gallery Holborn, c 1987 |
| Published Works | Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Richard D. Corrigan, Photographic Practices: Towards a Different Image, Comedia Series (London: Comedia, 1986). (Contributor)
Andrew Dewdney and Martin Lister, Youth, Culture and Photography, Youth Questions (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988).
Andrew Dewdney, Down but Not out: Young People, Photography and Images of Homelessness (Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 1994).
Andrew Dewdney and Peter Ride, The New Media Handbook, Media Practice (London: Routledge, 2006).
Eithne Nightingale and Richard Sandell, Museums, Equality, and Social Justice, Museum Meanings (Abingdon, Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2012).
Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa, and Victoria Walsh, Post-Critical Museology: Theory and Practice in the Art Museum (London, England: Routledge, 2013).
Andrew Dewdney and Peter Ride, The Digital Media Handbook, ed. EBSCO Publishing (Firm), Media Practice (London, England: Routledge, 2013), http://search.ebscohost.com.arts.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=658822.
Andrew Dewdney, Forget Photography, ed. ProQuest (Firm) (London, England: Goldsmiths Press, 2021), https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/UAL/detail.action?docID=6735559. |
| Source | Interview with Andrew Dewdney by Shirley Read for the Oral History of British Photography http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLLSA6685330 Accessed May 2023
also available to listen and view the transcript online https://sounds.bl.uk/sounds/andrew-dewdney-interviewed-by-shirley-read-1001342323840x00001b Accessed May 2023
Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Richard D. Corrigan, Photographic Practices: Towards a Different Image, Comedia Series (London: Comedia, 1986). (Contributor)
Andrew Dewdney and Martin Lister, Youth, Culture and Photography, Youth Questions (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988).
Correspondence with Claire Grey and Shirley Read, May 2023 |