ANDREW PURVIS
Andrew Purvis is an Australian artist and curator whose work encompasses writing about art, curating, and his own artistic practice; he has also worked as an exhibition curator.
Purvis is also a co-founder of the Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs, a project that combines research, participatory art, and community concerns, exploring spaces of coexistence, memories, and the threshold between the tangible and the intangible.
@ANDREW_SHEFFER_PURVIS
2025
HOPE
The work was constructed from materials found on Buenos Aires street walls. The frame was also repurposed to create the work. Therefore, both the materials and the ideas were available to anyone who viewed them, ready to propose a reassembly, which the artist carried out. Everything found was repurposed for a new purpose within a poetic approach that, based on the concept of repurposing materials, relies heavily on improvisation and intuition. In this context, torn paper, collage, pages from travel diaries, words and phrases collected from various locations, and even Spanish words unknown to the artist are intertwined with the names of popular saints in a free-flowing dialogue between what some consider sacred and the profane, in a constant interplay between color and form.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio | @oscardambrosioinsta
ANDREW
by himself
Dyslexia developed in me an exaggerated appreciation for color and shape.
