Holly Slingsby BFA (Hons), MFA

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Darlithydd mewn Celf Gain

Athrofa Gwyddoniaeth a Chelf Cymru


E-bost: h.slingsby@pcydds.ac.uk

Role in the University

Working with undergraduate students on Fine Art: Studio Site and Context, teaching them fundamentals in historical and contemporary art making.

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, 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 performed, screened and exhibited at Tate St Ives; Norwich and Norfolk Festival; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona; Tintype, London; DKUK, London; Matt’s Gallery; Spike Island; Modern Art Oxford; Freud Museum, London; CCC Barcelona; LABS Bologna; ICA, London; FEM Festival, Girona; Art Licks Weekend, London; and Barbican, London.

Member Of

  • Board of Trustees, Axisweb

Publications

  • 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