Andrew Bracey is an artist based in Waddington. His work emphasises the importance of looking, attentiveness and materiality in appropriation and explores the slippages between the original/reproduction, artist/curator, painter/artist. His current PhD by Practice is testing the original position of the ‘Parasitical Painter’; how contemporary artists use historical paintings to initiate new dialogue between the past and the contemporary. Solo exhibitions include Project Space Plus, Lincoln; Isherwood Gallery, Wigan; Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Nottingham Castle; Manchester Art Gallery; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Transition Gallery, London and firstsite, Colchester. He has been curated into over 150 group shows in the UK, USA, China, Thailand, Australia and across Europe; partaken in numerous national and international residencies; written and presented at numerous (art focused) academic conferences and journals; and has 20 curated exhibitions. He is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at The University of Lincoln.