Andy Abbott / ADRA Projects

Bio

Andy Abbott is an artist and arts organiser. He has exhibited and performed internationally as an individual artist and in various collaborations including the art collective Black Dogs. He has undertaken commissions for Tate Modern, NHS, Calderdale Borough Council, Luton Borough Council, Wakefield Arts Partnership, Museum of Oxford, Pist Istanbul, and Yorkshire Forward.

As a freelance producer, curator and consultant Andy has designed, delivered and evaluated projects for arts and community organisations, museums and heritage programmes, Higher Education institutions, local authorities and central government schemes.

From 2023 – 2025 Andy was Lead Artist for the This Is Nelson people and culture strand of the £25million Nelson Town Deal in East Lancashire. He was Visiting Research Curator for the UNIDEE Residency Programmes at Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto in Biella, Italy 2020 – 2022, and prior to this produced programmes as Environment Programme Co-ordinator for In-Situ (2017 -2019), and piloted a Centre for Socially Applied Arts for Univeristy of Bradford 2011 – 2017.

Statement

I am a creative practitioner with over twenty years of experience designing and delivering embedded, site-responsive projects and long-term programmes that connect people and place. Co-production, collaboration, and collective modes of working are at the heart of what I do. I have a passion for everyday creativity and grassroots culture – especially that which emerges from marginal, peripheral and interstitial spaces and communities. I approach my interdisciplinary practice and action research as a catalyst to build more sustainable and equitable futures for the people and places I work with.