Original Lithograph 'blue Night' my Andrew Holmes. Signed and Dated 1980. Numbered 7/100

Andrew Holmes was born in 1947 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, moved to London in 1966 and studied at the Architectural Association. Andrew is an internationally recognised photorealist artist who has made a lifelong contribution to contemporary art. He is best known for a series of 150 realistic pencil drawings exploring the apparently anonymous mobile infrastructure of cities. In addition, his work encompasses printmaking, photography, film, design and radio. The work offers not only the unique quality of handicraft, but the elements of three traditions: that art is evidence of an ability to select significant objects from experience; that art is the residue of engaging existing systems with particular mechanical techniques and processes; that art provides the possibility of fabricating new versions of reality. The work in all its forms has been exhibited and published widely for sixty years. Andrew was invited to be Visiting Scholar and artist in residence (2007) at The Getty Center, Los Angles, and to contribute to Pacific Standard Time: Art in La 1945-1980, shown in over 60 cultural institutions throughout Southern California. He is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, and Guest Professor at the Technische Universitaat, Berlin. He was an innovative and inspirational Unit Master of the famous Diploma Unit 9 from 1978 to 1996. The work of his students is archived in four books housed in the Aa library.