Andy Holden

Andy Holden (b. 1982, Bed­ford­shire, UK) is the son of orni­tho­lo­gist Peter Holden. Holden trained at Gold­smiths, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don. His Pyr­amid Piece, a scaled up knit­ted rep­lica of a pice of rock, was exhib­ited at Tate Bri­tain in 2010, and was cre­ated from the guilt of acci­dent­ally steal­ing a piece of the Pyr­amid at Giza as a child. In an accom­pa­ny­ing video the ori­ginal piece of rock is returned to the Pyr­amid.  Holden’s prac­tice incor­por­ates a wide vari­ety of mater­i­als and tech­niques, includ­ing music, film, col­lage, plaster sculp­tures, per­form­ances and paint­ing, often exhib­ited all together as part of large install­a­tions.

Fol­low­ing on from their Lec­ture on Migra­tion, Andy Holden and Peter Holden gave a per­form­ance in the Union Street Urban Orch­ard entitled Lec­ture on Nest­ing dur­ing the festival.