Dan Holdsworth (b. Welwyn Garden City England 1974 lives and works in London and Newcastle
upon Tyne) creates large-scale photographs and digital art characterized by the use of
traditional techniques and unusually long exposure times and by radical abstractions of
geography. Spatial Objects is the result of Holdsworth's ongoing enquiry into contemporary
photographic imaging processes and what he calls the surface interface of the image. In
computer science spatial objects refer to values that exist within a specific place
simultaneously in the real and the virtual spheres. The starting point for his Spatial Objects
series is U.S. Geological Survey mapping data of the American West it also draws on the
vocabulary of Minimalist sculptural practices of the 1960s and 1970s. Going beyond the limits
of representation what one sees in these works are the edges and fragments of the pixel
resolved within the geometry of the interface itself transformed into structures of pure color
and light. With an essay by Michele Robecchi.
