Holly Slingsby

Background

Holly Slingsby is a visual artist working in performance, video and painting. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University; and the Slade School of Art, University College London. Her practice explores belief in a variety of contexts, as well as examining representations of women and the implications of those. Her visual language reflects a fascination with iconographic traditions, drawing on biblical imagery, mythologies, and contemporary culture.

Slingsby’s work has been screened, performed and exhibited at MAC Birmingham; Space52, Athens; Chapter, Cardiff; Tate St Ives; Turner Contemporary, Margate; CCC Barcelona; LABS Bologna; Matt’s Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Modern Art Oxford; Freud Museum, London; Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona; Tintype, London; DKUK, London; Art Licks Weekend; ICA, London; and the Barbican, London. In 2023 she was joint winner of the Exeter Contemporary Open.

Specialist Subjects

Performance art
Video art
Painting
Art history

Professional and/or Research Experience

Holly Slingsby has over 15 years' experience as a practising artist, exhibiting throughout the UK and internationally. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and commissions. Her industry experience also includes working with leading contemporary arts organisations such as Matt's Gallery London; Conrad Shawcross Studio and Firstsite, Colchester. She has previously lectured at UWE Bristol and Winchester School of Art.

Holly is an active member of SCAR (Swansea College of Art Research), presenting work at conferences and exhibitions.

Qualifications

MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Art, University College London
PGCertTHE, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
BFA (Hons) Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford
Foundation Diploma Art and Design, Wimbledon College of Art, London

Languages Spoken

English

Professional Membership or Roles

Associate Fellow of Advance HE

Trustee, Axisweb

Member of Wales Arts and Humanities Alliance Arts, Health, and Wellbeing Group

Academic Teaching

Fine Art: Studio Site and Context (Full-time) (BA Hons)

External Recognition or Rewards

Arts Council Wales funding in 2025
a-n The Artists Information Company awards in 2015, 2019 and 2022
Arts Council England project grants in 2017 and 2019

Professional Publications

Holly Slingsby, Ithell Colquhoun, Art and Christianity isssue 121
Ritual/Bodies review, Charles Pickstone, Art and Christianity issue 119
When words fail on infertility, there is art, Ginanne Brownell, The Persistent
Event Report: In Search of the Miraculous, Laura Moffatt, Art and Christianity issue 115
Margate Now: Sunken Ecologies, Ellen Mara De Wachter, Art Monthly issue 451, November 2021
Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science, exhibition catalogue, edited by Dr Chiara Beccalossi, February 2018
Holly Slingsby, Grain Moon, Art Licks issue 22, March 2018
Holly Slingsby and Beth Bramich, Knotted Mass II, published by Publication Studio London, January 2018
Holly Slingsby, Art Worlds Margate, Artquest, October 2017
Holly Slingsby, Margate City Report, Art Licks Issue 20, Spring 2017
Beyond Seven Mountains, James Steventon, a-n, 30 August 2016
Holly Slingsby: Behind the Curtain, review by Helena Haimes, this is tomorrow, 2 June 2015
Unpeeling Reflections, exhibition text for Behind the Curtain, B. Catling, 8 April 2015
FEAST, a text work commissioned for Neru Phyut, edited by Ross Taylor, 2014
My Head is an Animal, exhibition catalogue, edited by Clare Nadal, 2013
Being Without Walls: Art Licks Weekend 2013, edited by Holly Willats, 2013