Damaged vinyl, hesitations during academic presentations, ad-libbed banter between songs, found photographs, misspelt signage, and DIY architectures all influence Andy Webster’s work. He is particularly drawn to their unplanned, provisional nature, using these elements as source material for sculpture, sound works, prints, and performances.

He uses various methods – erasure, amplification, substitution, and transcoding – to reconfigure materials and generate unexpected arrangements. Content is removed from academic presentations, leaving only hesitations. Scratched vinyl damage becomes the primary sonic content. A football kick replaces the artist's hand in mark-making. Sports commentary fills Cage's 4'33". Film screenings become browsable like bookshops.

By reconfiguring the familiar and sidestepping the expected, the work attempts to make visible and audible what typically escapes notice. This shift in attention – towards the peripheral, incidental, and unintended – creates space and time for different modes of experience.

Using a transcript of the commentary of Robbie Fowler's record-breaking football hat-trick in 1994, Andy’s Forty-Two Years: The Rematerialisation of the Art Object, 1952 To 1994, reconfigures John Cage's experimental composition 4' 33 from 1952.

Cage's work, devised as a container for ambient sounds and chance operations, is inadvertently transcoded and reperformed through the contingencies of Fowler's sporting feat, which takes four minutes and thirty-three seconds to complete.

The transcription of the commentary, which captures every verbal element, the stumbles, hesitations, spontaneous exclamations, rhythms, and cadences that characterise live sports broadcasting, becomes an unintended reperformance of an avant-garde composition, where the everyday inadvertently embodies the canonical.

Been a Long Time is a sound work featuring homemade recordings from various tribute drummers and John Bonham fans. Side A consists of endless loops of the iconic opening bars of the drum shuffle from Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll. Side B consists of loops of the ending of the song.

Each drummer’s interpretation of the original is retained, capturing successful performances, unintentional imperfections, tempo variations, added beats, and deviations. Each rendition rolls along to the climactic moment of Bonham’s playing before transitioning to another drummer’s interpretation of the same introduction.

• Forty-Two Years: The Rematerialisation of the Art Object, 1952 To 1994, Giclée Archival Print,
  118 x 84 cm, 2025 (limited edition of 25), signed – £425 (unframed)
• Forty-Two Years: The Rematerialisation of the Art Object, 1952 To 1994, 12" Vinyl Record, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2025 (limited edition of 25), signed – £57
• Been A Long Time, 12" Vinyl Record, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2025 (limited edition of 25), signed – £57
• Flamm x AH Print: Been A Long Time, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2025 (limited edition of 25) – £75 (unframed)