Dr Andrew Cross
PhD

Alongside his work at Solent, Andrew has been a regular visiting studio tutor at the School of Architecture, University of Nottingham. He has also been a visiting lecturer on a range of art and design and architecture programmes, including the Royal College of Art, University of East London, University of the Arts, Canterbury, Norwich University of Arts, and University of Kent.

Selected exhibitions

2023

• Mute, Ubicua Gallery, London

2016

• Estuary Festival
• Encounters Beyond Borders, Kennedy Museum of Art, University of Ohio (group)

2015

• Timacade (white hair), Turner Contemporary, Margate

2014

• Parallel Tracks, National Railway Museum, York
• Every Seat... Canal Projects, London
• Dakar Biennale
• Mogadishu – Lost Moderns (with Rashid Ali), Mosaic Rooms, London

2012

• The Solo/On Grass, The Dye House, Nutbrook Studios, London
• A Bucolic Frolic, Mummery+Schnelle, London (group)
• The Solo and other works, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (PuSh Festival)

2011

• The Solo and other works, Mummery+Schnelle, London

2010

• The Solo, Ikon Eastside, Birmingham

2008

• Passing Time, George Eastman House, Rochester NY
• Passage, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2007

• Passage, Foundling Museum, London
• North & South, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

2006

• An English Journey, Delfina, London

2005

• An English Journey, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum/Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2004

• An English Journey, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
• Foreign Power, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
• Beck’s Futures, ICA, London (group)

2002

• Some Trains In America, Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
• Some Trains In America, Barbican Centre, London

Selected publications

• Mogadishu – Lost Moderns (with Rashid Ali) 2014 Mosaic Rooms, London
• 3 hrs from here: an English Journey 2004 Film & Video Umbrella, London/John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
• Along Some American Highways 2003 Black Dog Publishing, London
• Some Trains In America 2002 Prestel, London

In 2021, Andrew completed a ‘late-in-life’ practice-led PhD with the University of Brighton, titled 'In the Beginning and Always: An Archaeology of Childhood Found in Landscape and Photographs'. Featuring the military landscape of Salisbury Plain, employing newly-generated and archive photographs, this study examined the use of childhood memory as a mechanism for re-evaluating the wider historical circumstances in which that childhood took place. More broadly, Andrew’s research interests include place and personal memory and their function in the consideration of a range of historical contexts.

These concerns are reflected in his photographic and moving image work, which also features Andrew’s life-long interest in railways and other forms of infrastructural architecture.

Since 2013, Andrew has been involved in an ongoing collaborative project with the architect, Rashid Ali, and the University of Copenhagen that examines the changing urban morphology of the East African states of Somalia and Somaliland.

Originally trained in fine art painting (Bath Academy of Art 1983), Andrew continues to write about painting (alongside other aspects of contemporary art) and is author of various contributions to art journals, artist’s monographs and exhibition catalogues.

Andrew continues to generate and develop new work for future exhibitions or publications.

He is currently writing on the work of artist Mark Francis for a publication accompanying an exhibition in 2026 at Solstice Arts Centre, Havana, Ireland.

One day, Andrew might finish the model railway he has been working on since his teens...