Meet Andrew Torr, Winner of Jackson's Art Prize 2024

Andrew Torr won Jackson's Art Prize 2024 with his oil on linen painting Estate, which we look forward to exhibiting at Bankside Gallery in July. In this interview, we chatted with Andrew to find out more about his body of work, artistic journey, his interest in estates as a subject, and how it felt to realise he had won First Prize.
0:00 Introduction
0:40 “I have three favourite subjects”
1:32 “The landscape of the housing estate says something political”
1:59 “Nostalgia and melancholy”
2:19 “I make paintings about paint”
3:11 “There is an underrepresentation of the housing estate”
4:19 “I'm drawn to a classic colour palette”
4:32 “There’s not one way to begin work on a painting”
5:00 “I’m not bad with Photoshop, which might send some painters screaming!”
5:23 “The push and pull of painting reminds me of 90s guitar music”
5:57 “My interest in art started when I was very young”
6:12 “After my accident I wasn’t sure what I was going to do”
7:10 “You need to be in the studio whether you want to be there or not”
7:46 “Knowing when a painting is finished is wholly intuitive”
8:09 “If you know what the end product will be, there’s no point in doing it”
8:57 “When I found out I won Jackson’s Art Prize, I couldn’t speak”
9:34 “Don’t worry about rejection’”
10:07 “Have confidence in what you’re doing”
10:20 “I’m looking forward to being a judge for next year’s Art Prize”
10:43 “I still find beauty in the lines of the estate”
11:28 Credits
All artworks by Andrew Torr.
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