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WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 29 19 David Andrew (b.1962) Shift Mixed media drawing 100 x 70 cm 2008 Donated by the artist R7 000 – 10 000 David Andrew is currently working as an Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the Wits School of Arts. Shift (2008) is one of a series of drawings that emerged from his Ampersand Foundation Fellowship visit to New York in December 2006. At this time, he was interested in imaging what he described as ‘processes of learning’as part of a broader project bringing together his dual interest in art education and artistic practices. He explains that: ‘I found myself producing dozens of small notebook drawings and collages responding to the city grid and the ways in which this grid became mutable and contingent given the intense surging movement of individuals, collectives, connections and ideas.’ Shift was part of the body of work produced for the one-person Misc (Recovery Room) exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery in February 2009. LdB