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For December 2009 Author of the Month, the Forum is pleased to welcome back author and researcher Andrew Collins, presenting an article on the underworld of Giza, both literal and symbolic. Beneath the Pyramids Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered is the title of.
Andy’s work as an illustrator and printmaker is informed by making drawings and paintings from life which are then revisited through the medium of print. The original drawings are not an end in themselves but rather aim to catch the essence of a place in a form that can be translated to print back in the studio. He is drawn to the immediacy that the screen-print and monotype processes both allow and encourage and which result in a gestural and often graphic interpretation of these initial sketches and paintings done on location that capture a real sense of mood and place.
Andy’s printmaking is represented through galleries across the UK whist, as an illustrator he has worked on a wide range of commercial commissions, across the publishing, editorial, advertising and design sectors.
Clients include ,American Express, ABTA, Natwest bank, Singapore Airlines, Guardian Media Group, Bowmore Whisky, Hoopers, British Gas, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Saturday Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Conde Naste, Time Inc., You Magazine, The Evening Standard, Time Out Magazine, IPC Media, National Magazines, Random House, Harper Collins, Faber & Faber, Friends of the Earth, Decca, EMI Sinead O’Connor & Shane McGowan - ‘Haunted’ Video Backdrop.
Work held in Collections
2009 PALACE OF WESTMINSTER COLLECTION, London
Work in Open Submission shows
2015 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol
2013 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol
2009 Royal Society of Marine Artists Mall Galleries London 2009 ORIGINALS 09 Mall Galleries London
2008 NEAC SHOW Mall Galleries London
2008 RBSA Print Prize exhibition
2008 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London
One Man Shows
2013 One man show, Stroud
2009 One man show Castor & Pollux, Brighton 2009 One man show, Jersey Arts Centre
2007 ‘Andy Lovell Prints’ 1 man print show London 2005 ‘Shifting Views’1 man print show London
Group Shows and Exhibitions
2015 ‘As I walked out one Summer’ -Laurie Lee Centenary show Sub Rooms Stroud
2013 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS’13 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud
2013 Printmaking show, Assembly House,Norwich
2013 Joint show, The Gallery, Cromer, Norfolk
2009 Lichfield Arts Festival. Joint show with Angie Lewin and Alistair Tucker 2009 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS’09 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud
Andy’s printmaking is represented through galleries across the UK whist, as an illustrator he has worked on a wide range of commercial commissions, across the publishing, editorial, advertising and design sectors.
Clients include ,American Express, ABTA, Natwest bank, Singapore Airlines, Guardian Media Group, Bowmore Whisky, Hoopers, British Gas, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Saturday Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Conde Naste, Time Inc., You Magazine, The Evening Standard, Time Out Magazine, IPC Media, National Magazines, Random House, Harper Collins, Faber & Faber, Friends of the Earth, Decca, EMI Sinead O’Connor & Shane McGowan - ‘Haunted’ Video Backdrop.
Work held in Collections
2009 PALACE OF WESTMINSTER COLLECTION, London
Work in Open Submission shows
2015 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol
2013 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol
2009 Royal Society of Marine Artists Mall Galleries London 2009 ORIGINALS 09 Mall Galleries London
2008 NEAC SHOW Mall Galleries London
2008 RBSA Print Prize exhibition
2008 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London
One Man Shows
2013 One man show, Stroud
2009 One man show Castor & Pollux, Brighton 2009 One man show, Jersey Arts Centre
2007 ‘Andy Lovell Prints’ 1 man print show London 2005 ‘Shifting Views’1 man print show London
Group Shows and Exhibitions
2015 ‘As I walked out one Summer’ -Laurie Lee Centenary show Sub Rooms Stroud
2013 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS’13 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud
2013 Printmaking show, Assembly House,Norwich
2013 Joint show, The Gallery, Cromer, Norfolk
2009 Lichfield Arts Festival. Joint show with Angie Lewin and Alistair Tucker 2009 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS’09 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud
Page 4So if these early farming communities did not carve the Sphinx, then who did? Perhaps we are looking at the wrong time-frame altogether, and the Sphinx was carved during an entirely different age. If so, when?Page 23The Great Pyramid is arguably the most accomplished engineering feat of the ancient world.
Yet exactly how it came to be built is still one of the most perplexing enigmas of modern science. Few would deny it is the culmination of nearly 150 years of constructional experimentation, begun with the building early in the Third Dynasty, c. 2678 BC, of King Djoser's famous step pyramid at nearby Saqqara.
Despite this realization, there are clear signs that the Great Pyramid and its two neighbors- the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure - incorporate elements of engineering, mathematics and technology vastly superior to those of their assorted predecessors. Where did this additional knowledge come from?
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Did it really derive from centuries of trial and error or might it have had a quite separate source of origin - a secret mystery school, perhaps, who had held true to the ways of the Elder gods?Page 260Perhaps cyclopean structures, such as the Valley Temple and the Osireion at Abydos, were like the ruined medieval abbeys of Britain today, revered yet never repaired, until son as yet uncertain impetus appeared on the scene and initiated the Pharaonic age in around 3100 BC. All the indications are that at this very time a whole plethora of new cultural ideas, new styles of worship and new designs in architecture were gradually being introduced into Egypt by Eastern invaders. Who were these people, and how might they have inspired Egypt's ruling elite to initiate major building projects, such as the construction of the various pyramid fields around the ancient city of Memphis?
Were they in any way connected with the Elders who are presumed to have left Egypt over 5000 years beforehand? Did they retain myths and legends that spoke of Egypt, or more precisely the Giza plateau, as being their ancestral homeland? Could it have been these peoples who, with the aid of the Heliopolitan priesthood, helped revitalize Giza's ancient sanctity?
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