Andy Holden: Weight of Imagination

Andy Holden is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose wide ranging practice embraces sculpture, installation, painting, video, performance, animation, music and curating. His work often starts from personal anecdotes or idiosyncratic narratives, and expands into broader philosophical and cultural inquiry. This monograph focuses on the twelve projects that have defined his career to date. These include breakout works Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece (2008); acclaimed magnum opus, Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (2011–17); the extensively touring Artangel commission Natural Selection (2017); his powerfully moving meditation on love, loss, grief and mourning, Song of Songs (2023); and his 2025 commission for Frieze Sculpture, London. Created in close collaboration with the artist, and featuring a thoughtful and engaging text by influential art writer Jennifer Higgie, this book offers the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate Holden’s inimitable art career so far.