André Stitt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1958. He studied at Ulster Polytechnic + Belfast College of Art + Design, Ulster University 1976-1980. He is currently professor of fine art at Cardiff School of Art + Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Art.

Working almost exclusively as a action-based + interdisciplinary artist from 1976-2002, Stitt gained an International reputation for cutting edge, provocative + politically challenging work. A predominate theme in his artistic output is that of communities + their dissolution often relating to trauma, conflict + art as a redemptive proposition. His ‘live’ performance + installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites specific throughout the world.

Although Stitt’s reputation was founded on his international career as a live artist, he originally trained as a painter in his home town of Belfast. In 2008 he was awarded a major Creative Wales award to develop his painting practice + has since radically changed his output to painting. His recent works are inspired by architectural blue plans + the structural + emotive qualities of the post war brutalist housing estate where he grew up.

Stitt's work has been included in exhibitions at PS1, New York 2000, Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, England 2005, Bangkok Art + Culture Centre, 2008, Galerie Lehtinen, Berlin 2011, John Moores 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

“Art Is Not A Mirror It's a F***ing Hammer" - André Stitt

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