Exhibition
Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection
10 Sep 2017 – 26 Nov 2017
Former Newington Library
London, United Kingdom
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Portrait of Chelsea Pettitt, Head of Partnerships at Wysing Arts Centre.
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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
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How the Artist Was Led to the Study of Nature, 2017 by Andy Holden. Details of the sculptural installation of porcelain eggs. Photograph: Marcus J. Leith, September 2017
Event
Guided tour of Natural Selection with Chelsea Pettitt
29 Oct 2017
Event times
14:00 – 14:45
Cost of entry
Free (booking required)
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
About
Father and son Peter and Andy Holden explore why birds build nests, why people steal eggs and why the bowerbird puzzled Charles Darwin in the exhibition 'Natural Selection'.As part of a series of tours – including by Bill Oddie, Richard Wentworthand Andy Holden – Chelsea Pettitt gives a guided walkthrough of the exhibition.
Free (booking required)
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Chelsea Pettitt is Head of Partnerships at Wysing Arts Centre
She leads the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (ECVAN) and their three-year project New Geographies consisting of ten new commissions across the East of England, as well as the Syllabus programme, an alternative learning programme for ten artists annually which Andy Holden was the first artist to lead.
After majoring in Art and Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Chelsea worked at the Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre and Hayward Touring, where she organised tours of exhibitions across the UK, leading on major collaborative projects including The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (2013) curated by Mark Leckey, Art from Elsewhere (2014-15) which was supported by the Art Fund and British Art Show 8 in collaboration with nine venues across four cities.
