Holly Slingsby (b. Oxford, 1983) is a visual artist based in Swansea, Wales. 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. Much of Slingsby’s recent work seeks to convey the often unspoken experience of infertility.
Slingsby studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University; and the Slade School of Art, London. Her 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.
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