Andrew Holmes

Born in1947 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Andrew Holmes moved to London in 1966, and attended the Architectural Association. Encompassing drawing, printmaking, photography, film and design his work explores the apparently anonymous mobile infrastructure of cities. The work offers not the unique quality of handicraft, but the elements of three traditions: that art is evidence, not so much of creativity, but of an ability to select significant objects, things from experience; that art is the residue of engaging the existing systems with particular mechanical techniques and processes; and that art provides the possibility of fabricating new versions of reality. These procedures are organised as Arrangements, and Nonuments under the principles of Informalism. The work in all its forms has been exhibited and published widely for forty years. Holmes is professor of architecture at Oxford Brookes University, was formerly Guest Professor at the Technische Universitaat, Berlin, and a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. He lives and works in London.

Publications

• Lavin, S. with Meyer, K., (2013), Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, MAK Center and Verlag fur Moderne Kunst.
• Hawthorne, Christopher, (16.05.13), L.A., Architects’ Effect on Each Other at MAK Center Exhibit, Los Angeles Times.
• Olsberg, Nicholas, (10.07.13), Letting Loose Los Angeles in the Seventies, The Architectural Review.
• Stein, Bennett, (10.05.13), Everything Loose Will Land: Teleporting Us Back to the ‘70s,
• Design and Architecture
• Moore, Rowan, (14.07. 2013), The Man Who Taught Us To Love Colour, The New Review, Observer
• Brooker, Graeme (2012), Key Interiors Since 1900, Laurence King
• Buck, Louisa and McClean, Daniel, (2012), Commissioning Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson
• Editorial, (23 March 2012), Roar Talent, Building Design
• Rattenbury, K. and Hardingham, S. (eds), Supercrit No. 3: The Pompidou Centre, Routledge, London
• Choquette, Michel, (2011) The Someday Funnies, Abrams ComicArts, New York
• Editorial, 14 March 2011), Cultural Guide, Building Design
• Dempsey Alan, Obuchi, Yusuki, Eds (2010), Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion,
• AA Agendas No 8, Architectural Association, London
• Editorial, (2 July 2010), Lewis Critchley, Building Design
• Editorial, (30 October 2009), Being There, Building Design