Holly English |
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Banner Image: Kittie State - installation view - cardboard, cat litter, various rocks and minerals, water, glasses, brown tape, computer paper, 2020
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Holly English is an interdisciplinary artist working in text, installation, performance, horticulture, hospitality and film. Her interest is in the systems and structures that govern our actions and desires. The economy, human supremacy, work and UK politics are scrutinised through the eye of an amateur nature enthusiast.
Holly’s practice exists via a performative persona which operates somewhere between a frazzled mother figure and an assertive small child. Carrying out her work with great diligence, there is a tongue in cheek self-affirmation in her naive attempts to be a better earth member. Holly completed her MA at Chelsea College of Art in 2020. Her work has been shown at Saatchi Gallery London and as part of ‘Constructing Landscapes/Building Worlds’ at Late at Tate Britain Online. She was a guest artist at TABA symposium for Circular Design and at Culture Reset ‘Art and Money’ online. Holly is an active studio member at SVA in Gloucestershire, UK where she currently lives and works, initiating and participating in numerous community projects, while regularly exhibiting in the gallery. She is co-founder of The Last Cochineal alongside Olivia Mossuto - a community researching mutuality and consumption and home to the TRANS TEMPORAL SUPPER CLUB, and is co-author of the ‘Potato Money’ initiative. For more information, you can visit her website here. |
Work by Holly English
Untitled nest portrait - nurturing a potato through the season - soil, grass clumps, potato, metal stand, marigolds, stick, paper, 2020
Axomamma from Holly English on Vimeo. 
'now imagine you are old and a friend is brushing your hair' - installation view - grass seed, cardboard, bread, projection, soil, potato, computer paper - project in collaboration with Eva Brá Barkardóttir at John Street gallery, SVA, 2020
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Image from bar Mutualitea - closing event for 'now imagine you are old and a friend is brushing your hair' at John Street gallery, SVA, 2020
Image from 'and so now we will sit on the rocks and drink in grey liquid' - bar in the fire escape, election night 2019
Image from 'maybe spring will never come' - experimental dinner in collaboration with Olivia Mossuto, 2020
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still from 'Homeostasis' single-channel video, 24:00 min - record of daily ritual from the 1st UK lockdown, painting the sun out of my studio, 2020
HOMEOSTASIS from Holly English on Vimeo.
