Colden Drystone
“I improvise in my studio much as a musician improvises on his instrument. My ideas and thoughts are my notes, melodies and beats. The final works present finished compositions but as with all performance, there is always room for further improvisation.”
Colden Drystone is a St. Leonards-based artist, musician and performer. His work is a combination of iconic imagery, collaged text, original audio and found materials. He paints on glass, carves into stone, composes music for his short films and presents one man performance works.
Seen as a whole the work is a joyous and poetic response to life on earth. By celebrating his instinctively creative response to the events of our time and juxtaposing personal responses with universal themes and motifs Colden is making immediate and important work about the culture of now.
Colden studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design before exhibiting with the Hannah Barry Gallery in London. Colden had his first exhibition with Hannah Barry in 2008 and has gone on to have 4 significant solo exhibitions with the Peckham based gallery as well as contributing to many group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
In 2014 Colden was appointed Artist in Residence for Girton College, University of Cambridge where he completed a monumental installation, several performance pieces and made his first films. He has worked and exhibited in Italy both on residency awards and as part of the Venice Biennale. In 2013 Colden performed for the opening of the Brussels Art Fair in Belgium. His work is held in museums and in private collections across the world.
In 2020 Colden became the first ever Artist to sell work in the now world wide artist support pledge scheme when founder Mather Burrows purchased 2 of Coldens pieces for his personal collection.
Colden currently works out of an industrial estate on Ivy House Lane.
'Schubert'
Mono type with bronze powder and graphite
59x42cm (unframed)
2014-2022
£700.00
'Pitch'
Carved stone
55 x 75 x 5cm
2021
£900