Approved: 26.04.2010

Holly Slingsby

Artist, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 26.04.2010

I am a visual artist based in Swansea, UK. I work in a number of media including performance, video and painting. My practice explores belief in a variety of contexts, as well as examining representations of women and the implications of those.

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Artist Statement

I am a visual artist based in Swansea, UK. I work in a number of media including performance, video and painting. My practice explores belief in a variety of contexts, as well as examining representations of women and the implications of those.

My visual language reflects a fascination with iconographic traditions, drawing on Biblical imagery, mythologies, and contemporary culture. I use historic material as a lens to look at the present, and to invite viewers to consider the transcendental. 

My most recent work seeks to convey the often unspoken experience of infertility, siting the female body in gardens and greenhouses. 

CV & Education

Education and Awards

2023 Exeter Contemporary Open, join winner

2022 Film London Jarman Award (nominated)

2022 a-n The Artists Information Company, Time Space Money bursary

2019 Project Grant, Arts Council England

2019 a-n The Artists Information Company, Time Space Money bursary

2017 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England

2015 a-n The Artists Information Company, Go and See bursary

2010 - MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, London

2006 - BFA (Hons) Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 - Approaching Virditas (Epilogue), CRATE, Margate

2018 - Approaching ViriditasMargate Festival, Margate

2016 - A Song of Ascents, FEM_16 and Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2016 - The High Places, commission for KV-TV, Kunst Vardo

2016 - Knotted Mass II, Finishing Touch, London (with publication)

2015 - Knotted Mass, DKUK, London

2015 - Behind the Curtain, Tintype Gallery, London

2012 - PROPS FOR THE SKY, SHIFT. , London

2009 - It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down, Christ Church Spitalfields, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 - Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Exeter

2023 - In Search of the Miraculous, Norwich and Norfolk Festival and screening at England & Co, London

2022 - Abbas Zahedi, Waiting With {Sonic Support}, Frieze London

2022 - 40 Years, South Square Gallery, Bradford

2022 - ENTRANCE, Resort Gallery, Margate

2021 - Sunken Ecologies, Margate NOW 

2021 - Stations 2021, Arts Chaplaincy Projects

2021 - The Spiritual Exercises II, Arts Chaplaincy Projects

2020 - Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London

2020 - Super Market, Circus Artspace, Inverness

2020 - The Spiritual Exercises, Arts Chaplaincy Projects

2019 - How small a thought, Margate Festival, Margate

2019 - The Immeasurable, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London

2019 - Transitions, Cavò, Trieste

2019 - Fertility Fest, Barbican, London

2019 - EmBEDded Stories, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol

2018 - Ecstasy in Norwich, Lower Green, Norwich

2018 - Radio Thamesmead (RTM fm), TACO, London

2018 - Visions of Science, The Edge, University of Bath

2018 - Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House and Gardens, London

2018 - Nit de Performance, Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2018 - Transitional States, Project Space Plus, Lincoln; Peltz Gallery, London; CCC Barcelona; and LABS Bologna

2017 - Venice Agendas, Turner Contemporary, Margate

2017 - Festal Favours, Charlbury Festival, Oxfordshire

2017 - Divergence, Sassoon Gallery, Strangelove Festival, Folkestone

2016 - Parlour Arboretum, Harcourt Arboretum, Oxfordshire

2016 - Beyond Seven Mountains, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Thoroughsale and Hazel Woods, Corby

2016 - ALT (Art Licks Trading), shop and performance event, Safehouse 1, London

2016 - Lupercalia Live, Bosse & Baum, London

2016 - Duration & Dialogue, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto

2015 - FEM 15, La Bonne, Barcelona

2015 - Foam, Grand Union, Birmingham; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2014 - The Centre for Remote Possibilities, Matt's Gallery, London

2014  - You cannot step twice into the same river, Pump House Gallery, London

2014 - Foam, Project/Number, London; AND/OR, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2014 - Art (After) Death, Highgate Cemetary, London

2014 - EC1 and WC1 Galleries Day, Tintype, London

2014 - AFTER/HOURS/DROP/BOX LIVE, Spike Island, Bristol

2013 - AFTER/HOURS/DROP/BOX LIVE, Modern Art Oxford

2013 - My Head is an Animal, South Square, Bradford

2013 - Art Licks Weekend: Stop, Look, Listen!, Peckham, London

2013 - Black Maria Showcase, Black Maria, London

2013 - Lore of the Land, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire

2013 - Stage Night, The Horse Hospital, London

2013 - Totemic Festival, Freud Museum, London

2012 - Art Licks Annual, ICA, London

2012 - LIPA, ICA, London

2012 - LUPA 7, LUPA, London

2012 - SUPERNORMAL, Brazier's Park, Oxfordshire

2011 - Acoustic Sessions, shift. at Angus Hughes Gallery, London

2011 - More Soup and Tart, The Barbican, London

2011 - Parlour Principia, Swedenborg House, London

2011 - POW!, FOLD Gallery, London 2010 - Babel, WW Gallery, London

2010 - Equal Night, The Dissenters' Chapel and Gallery, London

2010 - FEM 10, Gresol Art, Girona, Spain

2010 - Live Friday, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

2009 - Both Ends Burning, WW Gallery, London

2009 - Making Mistakes, Paradise Row, London

2008 - East End Collaborations, Queen Mary University, London

2007 - Zelda Rubenstein, Paradise Row/ 7-9 Princelet Street, London

2005 - Montana Butch, Great Eastern Hotel, London