Performance outside the exhibition “A Plea for Tenderness”, curated by David Raymond Conroy.
Jim Holden selling “beerbottle stalagmite original multiples”, made from the left over plaster used to construct the authentic work on display in the gallery.
Second presentation of Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape. With Tyler Woolcott. Stanley Picker Gallery and Centre for Useless Spendour, Kingston. A one hour lecture/manifesto for making art using physics and cartoons.
Six knitted sculptures with speakers inside communicating an hour long text. Video below.
Andy Holden and Peter Holden “Lecture on Nesting”
Marcus Coates, talk on “Dawn Chorus”
Peterborough, Oct 2011
group exhibition curated by Rob Tufnell, Pimlico, Oct-Dec 2011
Performance to close the exhibition Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time at Kettle’s Yard. Included the premier of Quartet for Thingly Time. Thanks to every one who came to the performances and visited the exhibition, and to Dan, for his help, up until his death in February, in curating the exhibition, and without who much of my work would not have been possible.
photographs 2-4 in this post by Noel Myles.
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, performance lecture with Tyler Woolcott, Kettle’s Yard, to accompany the exhibition Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time. Screen-printed poster available.
Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time: In Loving Memory of Dan Cox
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, May 14th – July 10th 2011
For Reviews see Art Monthly Issue 348, A-N Magazine, Guardian Artist of the Week, Cambridge Tab.
The film of the sculpture can be found in the current exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. The film is edited by Ed Atkins.
With thanks to Andrew, Mark, Stuart, Guy, Tyler and Ed.
Thanks to everyone who came along to celebrate the genius and beauty that was Dan Cox.
New single from the Grubby Mitts out on April 18th. Single Launch at Cafe Oto on April 21st.
Be Glad For the Song Has No End ~ A Festival of Artists’ Music
Curated at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, 11th Sept 2010.
Images: The Errorists, Juneau Projects, the boulder stage, Long Meg, Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas, Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra, and Kaffe Matthews. Video clips: Mark Leckey, Martin Creed. More video clips can be found on YouTube. For review see Art Monthly No 341, November 2010.
With thanks to all the artists who performed, Wysing for hosting the event, Resonance FM, the Wire, Arts Council and Paul Hamlyn Foundation for supporting it, and all those who came along.
Athens IV. 4m. Ply, timber and left-over paints. Performance: Athens: Yesterday I Woke Up Humming Tina Turner, a composition for 12 car stereos, 20mins. For the opening of the exhibition Props, Events and Encounters at the Hub in Athens. Oct 1st.
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Anthony as Andy as Andy – Artist’s Talk for the Exhibition Props, Events and Encounters
One night performance August 2010- Stalagmite Rock Club Beerbottle Rock Shop – Sculptures made on the balcony with plaster pumped over the bottles drunk in the rock club below. Stalagmite strobe lights made with expanding foam. Performing live/in collaboration with: Ice, Sea, Dead People. DJ set of songs with rock in the title PT 2: Pups McDowell. Wysing Arts Centre studio.
Playing on the roof by the Dan Graham Pavilion as part of Daily, Action, Poetry, Hayward Gallery, July 17th.
04.07.2010 Lecture given with Peter Holden. Part of London Festival of Architecture, by invitation of 51% Architects.
Grubby Mitts, Objects and Other Stories Tour: Bristol, Liverpool, London, Bedford. Summer 2010
Lost Toys Records Lounge: a display of the original paintings for record sleeves, posters, videos and music. Paintings and collages by Andy Holden and the Grubby Mitts, videos by Andy Holden and Johnny Parry, writings by Betty Frances, display assembled by Andy Holden for Lost Toys Records. Currently on show at Wysing Art Centre near Cambridge. wysing website.
NEW Grubby Mitts T-Shirts available from the Souvenir Shop. Limited edition with screen-printed front and wobbly eyes stitched on by hand by my Grandmother.
An exhibition called: The Eccentric, The Idiosyncratic, and The Unpredictable with myself, Juneau Projects and Bedwyr William at Shirman and De Beauce in Paris currated by Cliodhna Murphy and Guillaume Breton.
Images:
1) The Desert Cabinet and extracts from the Desert Project
2) Missed Opportunities (Warm Neutrals), plaster mixed with house-hold emulsion paint. (Background – orange wall and wood cuts by Juneau Projects)
3) Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will (melted records, painted and suspended)
4) Bedwyr Williams studio model in foreground with myBastion of the Empire painting behind.
5) Roy, Jim and me outside the exhibition
Three Short Works in Time, Performed at Tate Britain in the room titled, The Sublime in Crisis, Terror, Torment and Transcendence. The recording of the music will be added to the Studio Archive in the near future.
Top: Display
then: Christmas with the Holden’s, bronze, 2010
then: Collage, 2010
then: Mr Smith Goes To Washington, (Charlie Brown, Iggy Pop and the Question of Motivation), 2010
With Hidde van Seggelen gallery.
Top: Invite Card – Coach Party to Tate Britain
Other Images: by Mark Hedden documenting Andy Holden’s Coach Party to Tate Britain. This work coincided with the opening of Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece in the Art Now space at Tate Britain. The coach trip included a guided tour of London by Richard Wentworth.
Emulsion paint on 12″ Vinyl. Exhibited at the Pan Art Fair, Amsterdam. Part 3 in the series.
29th November, Transition Gallery, London
One-hour slide lecture by Peter Holden.
Images: 1) Screen-printed poster, Andy Holden 2) Knot Flock, Peter Holden. 3) Dottrel, Peter Holden. 4) Pink-Footed Geese and the Moon, Peter Holden. 5) Puffin Trio, Andy Holden
Two Short Works in Time (Part 1: A Meditation on the Dumb Motif).
16mm film transfered to digital, Camera/Editing Lucy Parker, music by Johnny Parry
Performed at Mol’s Place, 20th Oct 2009.
1) Bastion of Empire
2) Bastion of Empire (Summer Fruits)
3) Bastion of Empire (Caramel Coffee Creme)
4) Bastion of Empire (Butter Pecan Biscuit Crumble)
5) Bastion of Empire (Strawberry Cheesecake Cappuccino under a Mulberry Sky)
All: Emulsion on brown paper, 2009
Link to text: here
Link to video: here
Beerbottle Stalagmite Shelves, Akzo Nobel, Netherlands.
Two study’s for Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, as a gift for Mr Ben Janssens.
Part 1 of Odeon Cinema Performance Two Short Works in Time, a piece for 16mm film and string quartet. Music by Johnny Parry, adapted from the track “Fields and Birds and Things” from the Album “More Love and Death”, camera and editing by Lucy Parker.
A Series of Small Encounters, Hidde van Seggelen, April 09 (Installation Shots)
The exhibition also included the performance of Two Short Works in Time at the Odeon Cinema by way of an introduction.
Above: Last Stop For The Good Old Times, w/The Grubby Mitts,
A Work for quintet and marble game, dub plate / turntable / headphones
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Dec 2008
Curated by Tobi Maier
1+2) Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, emulsion paint on melted gramophone records suspended from chains.
(Background – works by Jim Shaw, Jeremy Dellar and Alan Kane)
3) Mother’s Records, Fathers Postcards, (version 2) 2008
Poster for the recent exhibition at Hidde van Seggelen and performance at the Odeon Cinema in Covent Garden.
