{"title":"Nick Holdsworth | Mixed Media Editions","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"21:1-21:657;2308-2964\"\u003eNick Holdsworth came to fine art through fashion. In 1998 he launched Purple Om\/Random, a cult designer label stocked at Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Liberty's, Colette in Paris, and Barney's in Tokyo, building his visual sensibility from the 1990s obsession with psychedelic imagery and youth culture before collaborations with Levi's Red Japan, Griffin Studio, and Harvey Nichols led him toward canvas-based work. The transition was not a break from his previous practice but a continuation of it: Holdsworth has always been interested in images that carry cultural weight, and in what happens when you take them apart and rebuild them from first principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"23:1-23:762;2966-3727\"\u003eHis distinctive technique begins with a source image — a celebrity, a cultural icon, a moment from popular history — which is then rebuilt pixel by pixel through a meticulous placement process, each of the hundreds of individual points of colour carefully controlled to reconstruct the whole from scratch. The result sits somewhere between photography and pointillism: immediately legible from a distance, yet revealing its underlying digital architecture on closer inspection, the surface texture of each pixel lending the work a quality closer to woven fabric or mosaic than to conventional print. Subjects across his practice include George Michael, Tupac, Oasis, Steve McQueen, and — in Noughties Playboy — the visual grammar of early-2000s glamour culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"25:1-25:382;3729-4110\"\u003eHoldsworth issues his work in small editions, and artist's proof variants — produced in separate, smaller runs alongside the main numbered edition — represent a significantly rarer category of impression. Artist's proofs are typically retained by the artist rather than released commercially, making those that do come to market the most collectible tier of any Holdsworth release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"27:1-27:229;4112-4340\"\u003eThe work available through Creed Gallery is Noughties Playboy, an artist's proof from a signed edition, at 71 × 95 cm. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nick-holdsworth-noughties-playboy","title":"Nick Holdsworth | Noughties Playboy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Holdsworth — Noughties Playboy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNick Holdsworth began his career in 1998 with the launch of Purple Om\/Random, a cult fashion label carried by Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Liberty’s, Colette in Paris, and Barney’s in Tokyo, building his visual language from the 1990s obsession with psychedelic imagery and youth culture before applying that same sensibility to fine art. Collaborations with Levi’s Red Japan, Griffin Studio UK, and Harvey Nichols followed before Holdsworth began exploring ways to channel his background in graphic design and fashion into canvas-based work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis distinctive technique begins with a source image, which is then rebuilt pixel by pixel through a meticulous placement process — each of the hundreds of individual points of colour carefully controlled to reconstruct the whole. The result sits somewhere between photography and pointillism: the image is immediately legible from a distance yet reveals its underlying digital architecture on closer inspection, the surface texture of each pixel lending the work a quality closer to woven fabric or mosaic than to conventional print. Noughties Playboy applies that process to the visual grammar of early-2000s glamour culture — the Playboy bunny costume, the bold eye makeup, the studied defiance of the pose — rendered in Holdsworth’s characteristic grid until the image becomes as much about the process of looking as the subject being looked at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixed media, pixelation process on canvas\u003cbr\u003e71 × 95 cm (artwork); 79 × 104 cm (framed)\u003cbr\u003eArtist’s Proof Signed\u003cbr\u003eNote: a standard edition of 95 also exists; this artist’s proof is a separate, rarer variant\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Holdsworth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56314175848788,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/files\/NickHoldsworth-NoughtiesPlayboy.jpg?v=1782996803"}],"url":"https:\/\/creedgallery.com\/fr\/collections\/nick-holdsworth.oembed","provider":"Creed Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}