Thursday 28 July 19:00 via Zoom
Andy Wiener was born and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and in the mid 1980’s studied photography at the Royal College of Art in London.
For over 30 years he has worked in the staged photography genre. He has often used photographic masks where the sitter wears a photographic mask of someone else, lending their identity to the other person. In the 1990s his work was exhibited nationally and internationally in a touring solo show, and in group exhibitions, and was widely published in a range of photographic journals
More recently, in 2012 he had a solo show at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow and in 2013 had 6 images in a group show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In 1990 a monograph of his work called Cautionary Tales was published by Dewi Lewis and in 2020 another monograph called Visitation Scenes was published, also by Dewi Lewis.
Over the last 18 months he has made a significant change of approach in the style and content of his work, and he will be talking about this new work tonight. Two of the photographs from his new body of work, which is still in progress, were exhibited at this year’s Photo London with the England and Co Gallery.
Alongside being a photographer, Wiener is a consultant psychiatrist. He graduated in medicine at Edinburgh and practices as a medical consultant in psychiatry working in children and young people’s mental health services at the Tavistock Clinic in London.
The common theme for both his photographic and psychiatric practice is the exploration of what lies beneath the surface.
Andy Wiener was one of our wonderful 2020 lockdown LIP speakers who very kindly volunteered to give a free talk. This was to help LIP continue with a programme for members during Covid and help us trial moving our talks online to protect our members. Now Andy is back 2 years later to show us what he’s been up to and for us to return the favour!