Andy Wiener studied photography at the Royal College of Art between 1984 and 1986. His photographs are humorous but also challenging. The composition and style of the photographs are formal, but there is always a twist, usually an uncomfortable one.

His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish Arts Council.

Rather than being a photographer of reality, he photographs things that are going on under the surface, behind reality.

Andy Wiener was part of a Scottish movement of photography in the late 1980's sometimes referred to as "Consructed Narratives" alongside other Scottish Photographers, in particular Calum Colvin and Ron O'Donnell.

He does not make his living from photography, but qualified as a doctor (before going to the Royal College of Art) and subequently trained in psychiatriy at the Maudsley Hospital in London and the Taivistock Clinic in London.

He now practices as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in North London.

The investigation of the self, and the investigation of the unconscious, is a common thread that runs through his photographic and psychiatric practice.

Solo Exhibitions

1990 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, show then toured UK

1988 Kneal & Russell Edinburgh

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (25 years of the Scottish National Photography Collection)

2003 Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

2001, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

2000, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

1998, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

1990 'Camera Art in Scotland Now' Houston Fotofest USA

1988 'Towards a Bigger Picture' Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1988 12 European Photographers, Houston Fotofest

Collections

Victoria and Albert Museum: A Rakes Progress

Deutsche Leasing: Sex Scenes

Scottish Arts Council: Sex Scene

Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Love Scenes

Publications

Monograph

Cautionary Tales 1990 Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester (33 photographs)

Anthologies

Studies in Photography 2009. (6 from Life Story Work Series)

Light from the Dark Room 1995 National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, (A Rakes Progress no 4)

New Scottish Photography, A Critical Review of 17 photographers, 1990, Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Love Scenes no 5)

British Photography, Towards a Bigger Picture, Aperture, New York 1988 (Sex Scene No 1)

A Companion Guide to Photography in the National Galleries of Scotland (Love Scene no 6)

Journals

Source, The Photographic Review, Summer 2009 Issue 59 - Life Story Work (article about using photographs to describe the life story, illustrated with A Rake's Progress No3 and 3 from Life Story Work series)

Time Out Magazine 1991 July 17 - (cover photograph Love Scenes)

Portfolio Magazine 1990 No 7 - (Living Scenes 1 - 4)

Alba Magazine Spring 1989 Barbie. Article regarding Love Scenes by Jim Lawson

Portfolio Magazine, Autumn 1988 (Sex Scenes no 1 & no 3)

Aperture: British Photography, Towards a Bigger Picture 1988 Winter Issue (Sex Scene No 1)

Creative Camera 1988 Issue 8&9 Double Issue (4 Religious Scenes)

European Photography 1987, Young European Photographers (Sex Scenes)

Creative Camera 1987 Issue 8&9 Double Issue (Sex Scene no 1)