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
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.
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.
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.
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
1] Premonition of the Third Attempt
2] Preparations for the Third Attempt
3] The Third Attempt (construction images)
4] The Third Attempt (construction images)
