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 Tim Birkhead holding a guillemot's egg. Photograph: J. E. Thompson
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A porcelain replica of a guillemot's egg, Photograph: Andy Holden
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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
Event
Guided tour of Natural Selection with Tim Birkhead
28 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 Wentworth and Andy Holden – Professor Tim Birkhead gives a guided walkthrough of the exhibition.
Free (booking required)
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Tim Birkhead is a professor at The University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds.
Much of his research concerns sperm competition in birds but he has maintained a long-term study of guillemots on Skomer Island since 1972.
His most recent books include Bird Sense (short-listed for the Royal Society Science Book prize) and The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Bird's Egg (also shortlisted for the Royal Society Book Prize).
He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
