Holly Nicholls
Based Edinburgh, UK
About
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I make paintings that explore the relationship between material and self within formalist painting boundaries. My work is routed in experience, I am interested in the gaps between what we see and the language we use to describe it. I use found and adapted tools to create performed, repeated and reversed actions; building both unity and division. A calculated yet ungovernable adrenaline pushes me through paintings and the balance between materiality and motive acts as a tipping point. Subversive contradictions drive my practice; wet and dry, horizontal and vertical, painting and removing, tool and hand, paint and place.
Education
2020: Commencing Masters of Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art
2018: BA Fine Art, Bath School of Art and Design
2015: Foundation in Art & Design Arts, University Bournemouth
2018: BA Fine Art, Bath School of Art and Design
2015: Foundation in Art & Design Arts, University Bournemouth
Selected Exhibitions & Awards
2019: 30th Anniversary at Beside the Wave, Falmouth
2019: Environments, Tate St. Ives.
2018: Look, Freelands Foundation, London
2018: Cluster, Truman Brewery, London
2018: CODA, Bargehouse OXO Tower, London
2018: Undergraduate Degree Show Bath School of Art and Design
2018: 5 Years of the Porthleven Prize, Newton Park, Bath
2017: Raw, CAST studios, Helston
2017: As the weather, Bath Spa Porthleven Prize exhibition, Bath
2016: Winner of the Bath Spa Porthleven Prize Residency
2015 Refract - 44AD Gallery, Bath
Press
a-n Degree Show Interview
Patrick Heron, Tate St. Ives Review The Gallery Collectors
Fad Magazine September
The Lines Between// Klimt and Schiele The Gallery Collectors
Artist Profile Freelands Foundation
Artist Introductions October
Credentials
- Award Winner
- Represented by galleries
Purchase artwork by Holly Nicholls
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Achievements & Goals
- Achieving a First Class Honours Degree
- Working with the Freelands Foundation
- Selling paintings through Acrylicize Studio
- To lecture at Higher Education facility
- To write for art magazines
- Paint full time
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Genre & Style
- Abstract
- Colour field
- Expressionism
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Inspiration & Vision
- Walking
- Reading
- People
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Sales & Trajectory
- Already sold works
- Self-funded
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Technique & Material
- I am a gestural painter working with the medium of oil paint
