Michael Andrews

Earth Air Water

‘The rare kind of show that changes a reputation for ever’. Michael Andrews died soon after From London opened at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In the present catalogue Richard Calvocoressi writes how since Andrews’s ‘posthumous retrospective at Tate Britain in 2001, his work has all but disappeared from view’. A generation on, he is a painter ripe for reappraisal. ‘It is the rare kind of show that changes a reputation for ever’, enthused Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. ‘By hunting down a dazzling array of his very best paintings and displaying them in perfect light with plenty of space, the Gagosian is doing what a public gallery should have done by now: proving that Andrews, who died in 1995, is the poetic equal of Bacon and Freud.’