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Holly Slingsby

Swansea
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

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. 

 

Earth Rite

Holding Shards

Messenger's Lament

An Enclosed Garden

Is there anyone among you

A Song Unheard

HEAP

Approaching Viriditas (Epilogue), 2019

Approaching Viriditas (Act III)

Approaching Viriditas

Approaching Viriditas (Prologue)

Knotted Mass II

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Announcing Critical Friend Conversations

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Curated Selection: Ritual Objects

Curated

Mourning

By Holly Slingsby

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