Andy Holden (born 1982)[1] is an artist whose work includes sculpture, large installations, painting, music, performance, animation and multi-screen videos.
[3] Subsequent solo exhibitions of his work include Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time (2011) at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, which featured "The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time", a library of books and a display of sculptures dedicated to his friend and collaborator Dan Cox who died in an accident just before the exhibition was due to open.
Holden often appears in the work in as a version of himself, promoting psychoanalyst Darian Leader to write in an essay in Frieze magazine that the artist "is inside and outside of the picture at the same time".
[11] Cartoons features heavily in Holden's work, and in 2018 he was included in the exhibition Good Grief, Charlie Brown,[12] at Somerset House which examined the legacy of Peanuts.
[16][17] The exhibition explored the sculptural properties of birds nests and the history of oology in Britain, as well as themes of parental influence, ideas of nature and nurture.
For his contribution to British Art Show 9 (2022), and in his exhibition Full of Days,[20] at The Gallery of Everything (2023), Holden presented a display of paintings by a previously unknown 'outsider' artist who signed her work 'Hermione'.