Edinburgh Art Festival

Andrew Ranville, Ramp Tilt, 2008

Andrew Ranville
Showing for the first time in Scotland, Andrew Ranville’s work is a mix of large-scale sculpture crafted from reclaimed timber, prints and film. New work has also been commissioned and his latest piece will be in Gayfield Square Gardens for the duration of the Festival.

His installations, sculptures and films explore ideas related to site-specificity as well as the viewer’s interaction with the work. They describe a personal form of psychogeographic study or the relation of one’s own body to the space they inhabit, interact with and navigate. Andrew wants his artwork and its space to exist not to be consumed by the viewer, but to be engaged with, triggering ideas of a new path, a new vantage point for seeing, a potential movement, or the acknowledgment of something as simple as their feet touching the ground.

Andrew is originally from the United States. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008 and his work has been exhibited internationally. His large outdoor installations are located in various countries including Australia, the United States, Finland and Spain.