Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards

About

Andrew Mockett is an artist who carries the concerns and tropes of Pop Art into new and unexpected territories. His large-scale brightly-coloured prints of popular cartoon characters and packaging designs from the 1960s and '70s do not rely on the mechanical reproduction processes of the Mass Media by which they were first disseminated. Instead, they are painstakingly created from woodcut blocks or multiple screen-printings. This neat inversion of the accepted order confounds the viewer’s expectations, and charges these alluringly familiar Pop images with a new and unexpected force.

Education

Bath Academy of Art - Foundation Course in Art
Maidstone School of Art - BA (Hons) in Graphic Design
Brighton University - Postgraduate degree in Printmaking

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Awarded The Lark Trust Bursary, Bristol University - Chap book of English Tat

2022
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
The Royal Academy Original Print Fair
2020/2021
The Royal Academy Original Print Fair 2020/2021 Cancelled/Pandemic
2019 
The Royal Academy Original Print Fair
Art on paper Pier 21 New York
Affordable Art Fair Battersea

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, CT, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Tate Modern, London, UK
Canterbury Art School, Kent, UK
Winchester Art School, Hampshire, UK
Manchester University, Manchester, UK

Gallery Representation

Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Most of the submitted postcard imagery hail from the late 1960’s and early 1979’s except the muppet's babies. The Herbs were a Michael Bond sideshow but intriguing. The Dune Buggy was a new line in 1971, in competition with the more progressive Corgi Rocket toy cars, however the box artwork was way ahead of the very dull blister packs offered by Corgi. Douglas and Brian speak for themselves, although from memory Brian always seemed to annoy Douglas, a true friendship. Muppet babies are just fun, such a strange concept but the figures are great to draw.

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