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Andrew Backhouse

Andrew Backhouse is a collage artist based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire who explores themes of memory and absence. His work reflects the idea that the past is never fully gone and that even events which never happened still shape our present. Rather than telling straightforward stories, Andrew uses fragments of sound, images, and text that don’t fit neatly into one narrative.

Andrew doesn’t simply use found and recorded materials to document reality. Instead, he sees them as elements to reshape, layer, and present in new ways. His work avoids clear, literal interpretations, instead creating a sense of faded memories. Images appear blurred by sunlight, and themes feel more like distant recollections than precise depictions.

By digitally manipulating historical and contemporary imagery into layered and fragmented compositions, Andrew challenges traditional ideas of history. He combines archival materials from different eras with a new, edited layer that emphasises how futures that never happened still impact the present. His work encourages viewers to reconsider memory and history as overlapping, unreliable, and influenced by unrealised possibilities.

Andrew’s art suggests that time is not linear but circular, with echoes and unexpected disruptions. Inspired by thinkers like Derrida and Jameson, his work reflects their ideas through its fragmented and layered approach.

Creating art, for Andrew, involves exploring, editing, and embracing uncertainty. He allows past events to interrupt the present, encouraging viewers to notice what remains hidden or overlooked, just beyond clear sight.

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Collage #12

Status: Available
Prints: Available as prints
Price: £185

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #08

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #07

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #06

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #05

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Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #04

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Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #03

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #02

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Pinhole Photo of a Derive #01

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £85

Collage #1

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £130

Collage #10

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Prints: Available as prints
Price: £130
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    Past Exhibitions

    Education

    BSc – University of Plymouth

    Music

    • As Andrew Backhouse – See MusicBrainz
    • As Forward! For Noise – See MusicBrainz
    • As Allan & Andrew – See MusicBrainz
    • As A Tiding Of Magpies – See MusicBrainz
    • As АКБ – See MusicBrainz
    • As AAMac – See MusicBrainz
    • As Guerrilla Dub System – See MusicBrainz
    • Gallery Exhibitions

      Joint Shows

      • (2022) The Mercer Open ~ Harrogate
      • (2019) Yorkshire Art Exhibition ~ Leeds
      • Solo Shows

        • (2019) Salontronic ~ Knaresborough
        • (2016) Profound Sound ~ Folkestone
        • (2015) Plunge ~ Folkestone
        • Transmissions

          My Radio Shows

          • (2024 til Present) Orbiting a Different Star – Harrogate Community Radio, Soundart Radio
          • (2023 til 2024) Certified Tonk ~ Harrogate Community Radio, Resonance EXTRA
          • (2023 til 2025) ///TRANSMISSION – Community Radio
          • (2021 til Present) The Jazz Show ~ Harrogate Community Radio
          • (2021 til Present) White Lightning – Harrogate Community Radio
          • (2019 til Present) Roots Conversation ~ Bishop FM, Soundart Radio, Harrogate Community Radio
          • (2019 til 2023) The Parish News ~ Harrogate Community Radio, Resonance EXTRA, K-PIP, K-BOG, Soundart Radio
          • Radio Art Broadcast

            • (Nov 2025) “Entrances as other Exits” – Radia Network
            • (2023) “Our Earth Week” ~ Harrogate Community Radio
            • (2022) “Twice Shy – Tape Rework” ~ Radiophrenia
            • (2020) “Postcard From A Spa Town” ~ Radiophrenia
            • (2018) “A Sonic Map of Dornoch” ~ Radio Flora, Hannover
            • (2018) “A Sonic Map of Dornoch” ~ RUM, Portugal
            • (2018) “A Sonic Map of Dornoch” ~ Eldoradio, Dormund
            • Press

              • (2025, July) Ex! Magazine
              • (2025, January) Harrogate Advertiser
              • (2024, August) Harrogate Advertiser
              • (2024, July) Harrogate Advertiser [PRINT]
              • (2024, April) Knowing Me, Knowing You – Aha! on Harrogate Community Radio
              • (2023, December) The Harrogate Advertiser [PRINT]
              • (2022, August) Collect Art [PRINT]
              • (2022, July) Featured Artist – July ’22, Art From The Heart
              • (2022, June) Knowing Me, Knowing You – Aha! on Harrogate Community Radio
              • (2020, May) Open Aspect, Harrogate Community Radio [INTERVIEW]
              • (2019, November) Creao Studio, Artist Series [INTERVIEW]
              • (2019, August) Open Aspect, Harrogate Community Radio [INTERVIEW]
              • (2018, April) Rockerilla Magazine, Italy [PRINT]
              • (2018, March) The Wire Magazine [PRINT]
              • (2018, February) Felt Hat Reviews [REVIEW]
              • (2018, February) Chain DLK [REVIEW]
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