Andrew Lord (born 1950) is an English artist based in New York, primarily known for ceramics and drawings. In a 2010 monograph on the occasion of his exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery, Dawn Adès commented that his sculpture, informed by painting, ceramics, poetry, the natural world and the city, exemplifies, "The centrality of material things to memory, experience, associations." Early life Lord was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. He attended Rochdale College of Art and the Central School of Art and Design, London. His early influences were artists connected with the north of England; Henry Moore, the painter LS Lowry and the poet Ted Hughes, as well as the Lancashire landscape. Career At the Central School, he encountered two influential teachers, Gilbert Harding Green and Bonnie van de Wetering. Though, it soon became clear to him that the direction of the course was not for him as Lord said, “I liked working with clay but I went through a training I didn’t like.” In 1971, upon graduating Lord exhibited his maverick approach to sculpting in clay. Throughout the 70s and 80s he explored both art historical and contemporary movements more associated with the domain of fine art such as Cubism, Process Art and Performance. In his final year at the Central School Lord travelled to Italy to study the works of the Della Robbia workshop and in 1972 he was included in the exhibition "International Ceramics" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the same year he travelled to the Netherlands to work at "de Porceleyne Fles" a ceramics factory in Delft, at first constructing large-scale sculptures in the factory's Architectural Department, later working in the Experimental Department a studio for artists within the factory. As he told curator Richard Armstrong in the catalogue to his 1993 exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, “I did my own work there for six months until I was asked to leave...my work was not considered to be of a high enough standard.” In this period he discovered the sculptors Johann Gottlieb Kirchner and Johann Joachim Kaendler of Meissen, Delft and Staffordshire ceramics and De Stijl. As writer, artist, and authority on ceramics Tony Birks noted in 1976, Lord's distinctive approach placed him at the tense boundary of fine art and craft: “It is ironic that his carefully and deliberately made pieces are in distinguished public and private collections around the world,