Holly Slingsby
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.
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 Viriditas, Margate 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
2024 - Ritual/Bodies, St Pancras Church, London
2024 - Ruthin International Art Festival
2024 - Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff
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
