‘HYDROZOAN’ @ THE ROYAL STANDARD

Joey Holder – ‘HYDROZOAN.’ The Royal Standard – Liverpool Biennial 2014 Programme.

For the Liverpool Biennial 2014 The Royal Standard presents three consecutive solo exhibitions of new work by Rob Chavasse (UK), Sam Smith (AU) and Joey Holder (UK) over a 16 week period. 

Joey Holder's latest show, HYDROZOAN,  comes as the final instalment in this three part series.

Holder’s work extends across a range of contrasting media; she paints and sculpts, but also creates videos and builds installations and manages multiple image streams, exploring the “structures and hierarchies of the technological and natural world” through the various forms and their abstractions.

Joey Holder – ‘HYDROZOAN.’ The Royal Standard – Liverpool Biennial 2014 Programme.

This exhibition comes as the result a six-month residency that Holder completed with 'Near Now' in Nottingham, working with genome scientists and biochemists to research future urban farming methods and commercial fish farming. Holder’s answer is a gallery simulation of an ‘Aquaponics’ system: “a food production method that combines conventional aquaculture with hydroponics”.

After viewing the main exhibition space, visitors are  given the opportunity to view the artists various studios in the building – I felt that being able to explore their personal workspaces and view many works in the process of production brought to life the creative process, allowing a better understanding of the exhibition and its context.

A selection of the more  chaotic studios and workspaces of the artists, we had access to view at the Royal Standard.