Andrew Whittle
I have made many memorials and worked on Public Arts commissions in the UK and abroad. Notably: The Animals in War monument, Park Lane, London; The Museum of Modern Art in Edinburgh, St George’s, Bristol and Newcastle University.
I have permanent installations at the Tate and Serpentine galleries. In 1982 I founded the Lettering course at Weymouth College and taught there for sixteen years. I have also taught for the Lettering Arts Trust, Studio XII in Bruges and West Dean. I enjoyed a long and productive collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay from 1991 until his death in 2006. My practise is rooted in the craft tradition of design for materials and an extensive knowledge of historical letterforms, which I happily plunder to design contemporary letterforms. It is important to me that each piece is sympathetic to the material and tools used.
