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PERMANENT VACATION

Permanent Vacation, Bureau, Manchester, 2010

Studio view (Preparations for Manchester)

Lost Toys Lounge at Wysing Art Centre

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 [...]

Jim Holden wears Grubby Mitts

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.

The Eccentric, the Idiosyncratic and the Unpredictable: Andy Holden, Juneau Projects and Bedwyr Williams. Paris.

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 [...]

Three Short Works in Time, TATE Britain

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.

TEFAF Showcase, Maastricht

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.

Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia

Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece, Art Now, Tate Britain

Coach Party to Tate Britain

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 [...]

Mother’s Vinyl, Father’s Postcards, 2009

Emulsion paint on 12″ Vinyl. Exhibited at the Pan Art Fair, Amsterdam. Part 3 in the series.

Akzo Nobel Collection - (Installation for Canteen)

Beerbottle Stalagmite Shelves, Akzo Nobel, Netherlands.

Desert Project (or Hard On In The Desert)

Two study’s for Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, as a gift for Mr Ben Janssens.

A Meditation on the Dumb Motif

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.

Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge

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, Frankfurter Kunstverein

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

in the shadow of a watertower

Art Amsterdam, Rai, 2009 with HVS

You Go On Without Me

Posters for the exhibition at Hex in Hackney, London.

Studio view this morning

Poster for the recent exhibition at Hidde van Seggelen and performance at the Odeon Cinema in Covent Garden.

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

Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

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