Holly Slingsby
Holly Slingsby is a visual artist based in Margate, UK. She works in a number of media including performance, video and painting. 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. She uses historic material as a lens to look at the present, and to invite viewers to consider the transcendental.
Slingsby’s most recent work seeks to convey the often unspoken experience of infertility, siting the female body in gardens and greenhouses.
Slingsby studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University; and the Slade School of Art, London. She has had solo exhibitions and performances at CRATE, Margate (2019); Margate Festival (2018); Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona (2016); Tintype, London (2015); DKUK, London (2015); and SHIFT., London (2012).
Her work has been shown at Nunnery Gallery, London; The Horse Hospital, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Katzman Contemporary, Toronto; Matt’s Gallery, London; Pump House Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Modern Art Oxford; the Freud Museum, London; FEM Festival, Girona, Spain; Art Licks Weekend, London; the ICA, London; and the Barbican, London. In 2018 she published an artist’s book with Publication Studio London and The Bower; and participated in the international touring exhibition Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science. In 2021 she was awarded a lead commission for Margate NOW, curated by Anna Colin.