Professor Andrew Holmes

• Unit F leader in degree school; Unit 5 leader in diploma school
• 2013 Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Ben Northover, Oxford Brookes University.
• 2012 Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Louise Cann, Oxford Brookes University.
• 2011 Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Rahul Vishwakarma, Alex Hinds, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
• 2010 Nomination: RIBA Annie Spink Award
• 2010 RIBA Silver Medal Nomination, Lewis Critchley, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
• 2009 RIBA Silver Medal Nomination, Marina Illum, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Research interests and consultancy expertise

• 2018 Progress, Exhibition, The Glass Tank, Abercrombie Atrium, Oxford Brookes University.
• 2018 The Raft, Exhibition, HOP Project Space, Folkestone.
• 2017 Drawings from the Alvin Boyarsky Collection, Various Galleries, USA and Europe.
• 2016 Signs and Wonders, Exhibition, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
• 2013 The Golden Hour, Video Installation, Ace Museum. Los Angeles. USA
• 2013 Glimpses of Paradise, 14 Drawings, Ace Museum, Los Angeles. USA
• 2013 Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architecture in LA: Everything Loose Will Land, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles,
• 2013 USA Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architecture in LA: Everything Loose Will Land, Paul Rudolph Exhibition Hall, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, USA
• 2012 Final Exit, Plus One Gallery, LondonHyperrealism Now, Plus One Gallery, London
• 2011 AA Atlas, The Sixties: If You Were There… Architectural Association, London Winter Show, Plus One Gallery, London
• Exactitude VI, 10 Years of Hyperrealism Today
• 2010 Winter, Plus One Gallery, London
• 2008 L.A.W.U.N. Project No. 19, Architectural Association, London Exactitude IV, Plus One Gallery, London Gas Tank City, Jonathan Novak Gallery, Century City, Los Angeles. USA Light Signatures, Sefton Park, Liverpool Of Mice and Men, Costumes, Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich

Research grants and awards

• 2013  Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Ben Northover, Oxford Brookes University.
• 2012  Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Louise Cann, Oxford Brookes University.
• 2011  Nomination: RIBA Silver Medal, Rahul Vishwakarma, Alex Hinds, Oxford Brookes University.

Research projects

• Light Signatures, Sefton Park, LiverpoolRegional Assembly for the North East 2003-04
• Glass Pavilion, Hackney, London (2000)

• 2008 - Ordinary Member of Council, Architectural Association, London.

• 2017 - Big Bertha, Bo Diddley and the Ton Up Boys, The Main Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
• 2017 - Big Bertha, Bo Diddley and the Ton-Up Boys, The Customs House: Urban Room, Folkestone.
• 2015 - Postmodern Procedures, School Of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
• 2015 - Shibboleth, MArch Exhibition, The Barn, St John’s College, St Giles, Oxford.
• 2014 - Helen Pashgian in Conversation, Rachel Rivenc and Carol Eliel, Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA.

• 2017 - Never Let You Go, Music Video and Album Sleeve, Danglo feat. Oli Gosh, Armada Deep. Music: 1,000,000 hits, Video: 80,000 hits
• 2014 - Helen Pashgian: in Conversation, with Getty Associate Scientist Rachel Rivenc, and LACMA curator Carol Eliel, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loppy74-Z0I
• 2011 - The Someday Funnies, Michel Choquette, Abrams ComicArts, New York
• 2008 -  Of Mice and Men, Costumes, Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich
• 2002 -  Hallelujah Junction, Truck Stops, BBC Radio 3, Interval Talk

Born in 1947 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Andrew Holmes moved to London in 1966, and attended the Architectural Association.

He is best known for a series of 100 realistic pencil drawings exploring the apparently anonymous mobile infrastructure of cities. In addition however his work encompasses printmaking, photography, film, and design. The work offers not the unique quality of handicraft, but the elements of three traditions: that art is evidence, and 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 he organises as Messages, 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.

Press, publicity and reviews

• Scallan, Melissa (2017), Vehicle for Art, Hedge
• Bottoms, Ed (2016), Entertainment Value, AArchitecture 29, Architectural Association, London
• 11 May 2016, Why Painting Maintains a Significant Role in a World of InstantImages, www.plusonegallery.com/blog/48
• 13 January 2016, How Does the Use of Photoshop Affect Hyperrealistic Art? www.plusonegallery.com/blog/33
• 11 November 2015, The Difference Between Photorealism and Hyperrealism, www.plusonegallery.com/blog/32
• Marjanovic, Igor, and Howard, Jan (2015), Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky, and the Architectural Association, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, RISD Museum.
• Pagel, David, (15.07.2014), Keen Observations Flow Through Andrew Holmes’ Drawings, Video, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-art-review-andrew-holmes-at-ace-museum-20140708-story.html
• Andrew Holmes’ Golden Hour at the Ace Museum, Farmlife, LA, Blog http://farmlifela.com/AceMuseum
• Lavin, S. with Meyer, K., (2013), Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, MAK Center and Verlag fur Moderne Kunst.

Other publicity

2017   Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
           Hand-drawn Future: Digital Age,
           Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association,
           The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin.
2016   Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London.
           Gothic, The Barn, Kendrew Quadrangle, St John’s College, Oxford
2015   Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association.
           Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. Rhode Island. SA
           Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis. Missouri. USA.
           The Magic of Trees, Contains Art, East Quay, Watchett, Somerset.
           Shibboleth, The Barn, Kendrew Quadrangle, St John’s College, St Giles, Oxford.
2014    70 80 Print, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton
2013    Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architecture in LA: Everything Loose Will Land.
           MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
           Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architecture in LA: Everything Loose Will Land,
           Paul Rudolph Exhibition Hall, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, USA
2012    Hyperrealism Now, Plus One Gallery, London.
2011     AA Atlas, The Sixties: If You Were There…, Architectural Association, London.