>Steven Claydon
Artist, Musician
Steve Claydon is and artist and musician. He studied at Chelsea School of Art in the late 1980s and then Central Saint Martins in the late 1990s. He was a founding member of the band Add N to (X), with Anne Shenton and Barry Smith who worked together in what they saw as part of the lineage of electronic innovation forged since the 1950s by the likes of Edgar Varese, Kraftwerk, Bruce Hack, Walter Carlos, Grandmaster Flash, Leon Theremin and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. They coined the term 'avant-hard' to describe their electronic output. Add N to (X) were released on Mute records until they disbanded in 2003. Claydon was then involved with the band Relaxed Muscle and recently teamed up with Mark Leckey and Kieron Livingstone to perform as 'Jack to Jack'. Claydon made a body of art work in collaboration with artist Neil Chapman, until recently when he began working on solo projects. Claydon has exhibited at greengrassi, Hoxton Distillery and HOTEL in London.
Selected Discography
'Goodbye darling' Prinz Bambi, (compilation), Northern Electronics, 2003
'Take me to your leader', Add N to (X), Mute, 2002
'Plug Me In', Add N to (X), Mute, 2001
'The Revenge of the Black Regent', Mute, 2000
'The Ambassadors', collaboration with Chris Ofili, (compilation), 1999
'Metal Fingers in my Body', Mute, 1998
Selected Exhibitions
'Dereconstruction', Barbara Gladstone Galery, New York, USA 2006
'Time Lines', Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf 2005
'Odiseado tra tempo Galerie', Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, 2005
'Even a Stopped Clock Tells The Right Time Twice A Day', ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London 2005
'Art Now- Lightbox', Tate Britain, London 2005
'Stephen Claydon', Hotel Gallery, London 2005
'Fear of a Planet' HOTEL, London, 2005
'The Third of the Third' solo exhibition, Hoxton Distillery, London, 2004
'The Sum of the Earth' (with Neil Chapman), Hoxton Distillery, London, 2003
'Five works in lieu of a particle accelerator' (with Neil Chapman), greengrassi, London, 2000
'Adding N to (X), (installation and performance) Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
'It's a Curse, it's a Burden', Curated by Glenn Brown, Approach Gallery, London,1998