I am a 21 year old English literature student at King's College London.

I read, write, and make art.

Check out my work below (all collages are assembled using materials I have found while travelling the world, where and when I can. The writing used in the work is either my own spontaneous prose or else quotes from novels I have been reading at the time)

www.andrew-finch.com

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I'm currently planning to travel across the United States of America over June/July of 2015, from NYC to LA. I'm also a student and broke, so anyone that can lend me their coach to sleep on I would be forever indebted to them. Beyond the place to stay, I also want to meet a vast array of wonderful people over the course of the trip, friends till the end.

I'm taking my Olympus Mju 35mm, my skateboard, my VHS camera, a few books, my journals and collage equipment and creating while I travel, in preparation for my first solo artwork exhibition I'm showcasing in London during September 2015.

Interests

Literature, Film, SKATEBOARDING, Art Books, Poetry, Travelling, Drinking Beer, Meeting People, LIFE itself.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• beer
• coach
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• skateboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Tropics by Henry Miller, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel , Crime and Punishment / The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Underworld by Don Delillo, Walden by Thoreau, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Ulysses / The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

FILMS

Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and In The Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai, Trust by Hal Hartley, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick, A Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami, everything by Werner Herzog, The River, What Time Is It There, Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-Liang, Peter Sellers, Paris Texas and Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Badlands and Days of Heaven by Terrance Malick, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Florida and The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris.

MUSIC

Life Without Buildings, Bob Dylan, Jesus and Mary Chain, Cat Power, Built to Spill, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Mazzy Star, MF Doom, Sebadoh, Neko Case, JUNE OF 44, Lungfish, Guided by Voices, My Bloody Valentine, Abner Jay, Leadbelly, The Clash, Tom Waits, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Songs; Ohia, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Jeru the Damaja, Neil Young, The Gun Club, Swans, The Pixies, Joy Division, Unwound, Daniel Higgs, Otis Redding.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Can't think specifically but I put a lot of dedication to art and creativity.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach by example.
Learn from experience.
Share while having some beers.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Wild stories, friendship, laughter, my cigarettes.

And all hosts that accommodate me- artwork.

I'm also one of the last surviving people in the world who writes letters so you can wholesomely expect some beautiful mail to arrive to you over the course of your life if you become my friend !

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom