Biography
Andy Frost (b. Beford, UK 1957) is a sculptor who studied at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry Polytechnic and Reading University. He was in Rotterdam on a Royal Netherlands Scholarship (1979-80) and then in 1982 he was in the USA on a Boise Travel Scholarship after whcih he became the Henry Moore Foundation Fellow in Sculpture at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. His sculpture uses a range of materials, from wood and steel to plastic and fibreglass. Titles such as Batmobile (1983) in the Arts Council Collection and El Cid Chancing his Arm suggest humour but Frost’s creations are often dynamically alarming. He has shown in a number of British galleries, was included in the New Contemporaries exhibition at ICA, the 1983 Whitechapel Open Exhibition and the Welsh Sculpture Trust’s Sculpture in a Country Park, Margam in the same year.
