Andy Wiener
A Photographic Masquerade
Staged photographs 1986–2019
1 May - 20 June 2026
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon - 5pm
Studies in Photography Gallery, 6 William Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7NH
Marking the 40th anniversary of A Rake’s Progress, Andy Wiener presents a solo exhibition at the Studies in Photography Gallery.
Widely exhibited and published, A Rake’s Progress was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1996. In this series, Wiener used flat photographic masks of his own face to construct surreal, humorous, performance-based images that inhabit psychological rather than literal space.
In the 1980s, his work explored individual identity in relation to mass commercialisation and media influence. More recent work explores family history, memory, and loss.
Every image in the exhibition incorporates photographic masks, drawing on several bodies of work that explore sex, love, Catholicism, childhood memory, and family history.
Andy Wiener is an Edinburgh-born artist and psychiatrist, currently working in London. He studied psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh Medical Faculty in 1983, and then in 1986 he gained a degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art London.
He has exhibited his 'staged photography' in which characters wear masks, in Britain and abroad. He currently works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in London, England. He has exhibited widely in Scotland, England and abroad, and had published artistic monographs Visitation Scenes (2020) and Cautionary Tales (1990), as well as his contributions to many anthologies on photography.
More info: https://www.andywiener.com/
