Holly Slingsby was born in Oxford in 1983. She lives and works in London.

Education and Awards

Sir Andrew Taylor Prize in Fine Art, 2010

MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 2008-2010
BFA (Hons) Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, 2003-2006
Foundation diploma Art and Design, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 2002-2003

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2010

Babel, WW Gallery, London. Co-curated with Natasha Bailey (forthcoming)
Slade MA/MFA Show, London
Parlour École Loqueteuse, The Ragged School Museum, London
What Is Not but Could Be If (live art event), 12 Vyner Street, London

Equal Night, The Dissenters' Chapel and Gallery, London
FEM 10, Girona, Spain


2009

Pause and Effect 1.5, Work Dalston, London
Both Ends Burning, WW Gallery, London
Slade Interim Show, Woburn Research Studios, London

Melquiades, The Crypt Gallery, London
It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down, Christ Church Spitalfields, London
Parlour Chirurgie, Old Operating Theatre, London
Making Mistakes, Paradise Row, London


2008

East End Collaborations, Queen Mary University, London
The Mortality Room, In Pieces, 39 Myddelton Square, London
Making Mistakes, The Wallis Gallery, London
Parlour, Chelsea School of Art & Design, London

2007

Cabaret Melancholique, Mildmay Club, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Zelda Rubenstein - a group show, Paradise Row/ 7-9 Princelet St, London
Making Mistakes, The Wallis Gallery, London
Rules & Regs, South Hill Park, Bracknell
European Night of Open Museums, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Fresh festival, South Street, Reading
Fresh festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell

2006
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
100 Degree Show, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
The Heat is Rising, Modern Art Oxford
Untitled performance, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire

2005
Cabaret Melancholique, Mildmay Club, London
Cabaret Melancholique, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
&Now, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
Montana Butch, The Great Eastern Hotel, London
Untitled performance, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

2004
Cabaret Melancholique, Mildmay Club, London
Atomic Art Bomb, Modern Art Oxford

Residencies
Simon Faithfull's Mobile Research Station No. 1.2, Skulpturenpark Zentrum, Berlin, October 2009
Artist in residence, South Hill Park, Bracknell, March-April 07