Kirsty Andrew is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a Fine Art (Sculpture) degree from Central Saint Martins (2015), a Ceramics Diploma from City Lit (2023), and an MA Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art (2024). She is currently undertaking the MRes programme at the RCA and is a Trustee of the British Ceramics Biennial.
Drawing on personal experience, she explores memory, home and family dynamics, with a developing focus on her mother–daughter relationship and its central role in the formation of self. Underlying this is the early inversion of the maternal role, shaping creative identity over time. She considers how relationships give shape to “home” as both an internal and shared space, holding tensions of presence and absence, speech and silence. Through psychoanalysis, literature, interviews, and dialogue, she works through iterative processes in which language and making unfold together, tracing how we listen, remember, and hold one another across time.
Group Exhibitions
(* selected)
Capital Shaddow, Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, MArch 2025
Housing & Social Reproduction, Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, Dec 2024
Murmurations * RCA Ceramics & Glass Alumni 2024, co-curated by Kirsty Andrew, Elliot Denny & Heather Gibson, London, September 2024
Uneasy in the Frame *, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London, August 2024
Curtains *, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, (publication https://www.alchemyexperiment.com/curtains-open-call-2024)
Everflowing Encounter *, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, May 2024
Ephemeral, Boos Closet Gallery, 198 Kensington Park Road, London, June 2023
In Flux, City Lit Graduation Show, Downstairs At the Department Store, London, February 2023
Diploma Interim Show, City Lit Gallery, London, January 2023
Ceramics, City Lit Gallery, London, April 2019
Young Gods *, Griffin Gallery & CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, January / February 2016
Standing in the Shade *, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, January 2016
Recent Graduates *, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, October 2015
CSM Show One, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, May 2015
Playdough, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, February 2015
Jenga, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, December 2014
Illuminations *, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London, June 2014
Star Food & Wine, 90 Old Street, November 2013
Atelier Rochette, Galerie Gauche et Droite de l’ ENSBA, Paris, May & March 13
In Exchange, Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, March 2011
Residency & Exhibition, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, June 2010
Foundation Show, Central Saint Martins, Back Hill, London, June 2009
Education
RCA, MRes, September 2024 – present
RCA, MA Ceramics & Glass, September 2023 – August 2024
Ceramics Diploma (Highly Commended), City Lit, September 2019 – February 2023
BA (Hon) Fine Art (2:1), Central Saint Martins, 2009 – 2015
Erasmus Exchange, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2013
Foundation in Art & Design (Merit), Central Saint Martins, 2008 – 2009
ICAEW 1995, Coopers & Lybrand, 1993 – 1996
BSc (Hons) Maths with Operational Research (2:1), Southampton University, 1990 – 1993
Kirkbie Kendal School, Kendal, Cumbria 1983 – 1990