Al James Edward Holmes, born 1971 in Manchester, UK.
Al James Edward Taylor, born 1971 in Wigan, UK.

education
1998 - 2001 Central Saint Martins Art School - First B.A (Hons) Fine Art
1997 - 1998 Chelsea School of Art - Fine Art
1995 - 1996 Collegia de Vallodolid Seminary - Mysticism
1993 - 1995 Campion House Jesuit Seminary - Theology

solo exhibition
2007 "Multi Plex" at FACT, Liverpool, UK

group exhibitions
2006 "Satellite of Love" at Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006 "animate!" Channel 4 Artists Television Broadcast
2006 "Hard Drive (A:) at Tank.tv
2005 "About Time" at Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2005 "Mensomadaire" Canal+ International Television Broadcast
2005 "Island Art Film & Video" at Prenelle Gallery, London
2005 "CoA Art Prize" at Centre of Attention Gallery
2004 "animate!" Channel 4 Artists Television Broadcast
2004 "Weird & Wonderful" at mama gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004 "Out of Time" at St. Augustine's Tower, London
2004 "Para Site" at Bridport Gallery, Devon, UK
2003 "Starting From Scratch" at Deluxe Gallery, London
2003 "Precursor" at Century Gallery, London
2003 "Till Death Do Us Join" at Witness Gallery, London
2002 "Proof" at KB Studio 16, London
2002 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2001 "Beck's Futures 2" (Film & Video) at ICA, London
2001 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
2001 Sotheby's New York
2001 “Future Map" at Millbank Gallery, London
2000 "Directions 2000" at Letharby Gallery, London
2000 "No Parking in Paradise" at Tricycle Gallery, London

awards
2002 London Arts - LFVDA Artists' Film and Video Award
2002 ACME Residency - 5 Year LiveWork Studio Award
2001 ACAVA / London Arts - First Base Studio Award
2000 Phoebe & Llewyn - Research Scholarship

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digital print from Perpetual Motion, The Lamb of God, 2004.

After graduating in Fine Art from Saint Martin Art School in 2001, AL and AL built their own blue screen special effects studio in London and began making computer generated films which document their life together inside the blue void.
AL and Al’s habitation within the blue screen studio has produced a curious mix of document and fantasy.
AL and AL have substituted their life for a simulation, programming and producing computer generated worlds which they explore with their own performing bodies.
AL and AL’s live work/studio has come to embody a form of escapism which at the same time shadows and documents their life together. AL and AL now have shared memories of places which have never existed times together which never took place. AL and AL’s films can be seen as a real document and a fictious simulation at the same time.
From this formal blue void, AL and AL weave resonant content into their films and performances, probing the mysterious destiny of technology and investigating the political mediation, psycho sexual and mystical consequences of their seduction.
Discarding with the familiar special effects film making process, AL and AL become all of the crew, programming their own worlds, performing in the blue screen, editing, producing the sound, enabling the to obtain a unique level of authorship over the work.
AL and AL have attracted an international audience through gallery exhibitions, site specific installations, television broadcasts and film festival screenings, they have received numerous awards for their work from Arts Council England Channel 4 television, Film London, ACAVA, Acme and most recently receiving the Centre of Attention Arts Prize.