Event
Guided tour of Natural Selection with Tim Birkhead
28 Oct 2017
Former Newington Library
London, United Kingdom
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A porcelain replica of a guillemot's egg, Photograph: Andy Holden
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How the Artist Was Led to the Study of Nature, 2017 by Andy Holden. Detail of a sculptural installation of porcelain eggs. Photograph: Liam White, October 2017
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Turned wood: Andy Holden & Geoffrey Leeson, Silent Spring (2017) in front of colour photographs by Peter Holden: Natural Selection (1982 / 2017), in turn, hung upon wallpaper: Andy Holden & Peter Holden, Super Normal Stimulus (2017). Photograph: Liam White, October 2017
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Film work A Natural History of Nest Building (2017) by Andy Holden & Peter Holden seen through a recreation of a bowerbird’s bower Untitled (Bower) (2017) by Andy Holden. Photograph: Marcus J. Leith, September 2017
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Still from the opposite The Opposite of Time, 2017, by Andy Holden, three screen video with animated crow leading a social history of nest collecting. Photograph: Marcus J. Leith, September 2017
Exhibition
Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection
10 Sep 2017 – 26 Nov 2017
Event times
Wednesday – Saturday* 11:00 – 19:00 (last admission 18:45)
Sunday 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Former Newington Library
Address
- 155 Walworth Road
- Elephant & Castle
- London
England - SE17 1RS
- United Kingdom
Event map
Astonishing ★★★★★ The Observer
Full of surprises ★★★★ the Guardian
Deeply emotional ★★★★ Time Out London
About
Father and son Andy Holden and Peter Holden take us on an ornithological journey: from the building of nests to the collecting of eggs.
The exhibition is situated in the former Cuming Museum – a museum founded by a father and son – which was originally home to a collection of natural history and archaeological curiosities.
Natural Selection showcases several multi-screen films, a selection of archival material, and Andy Holden’s own collection of found nests. The exhibition will span two floors and capture the multi-sensory oeuvre of birds. ‘A Natural History of Nest Building’, situated on the ground floor, exposes the unscrupulous cuckoo; the artistry of the bowerbird; and the nest as an object in its own right. While, in the basement, ‘A Social History of Egg Collecting’ sheds light on this practice in a changing legal landscape, and the resultant criminal operations after 1954, through a video work 'The Opposite of Time' and an installation titled ‘How the Artist Was Led to the Study of Nature’.
The project was originally due to run until 5 November but has been extended until 26 November by popular demand.
