Holly Slingsby (b. Oxford, UK, 1983) is a visual artist based in Swansea, UK. Through performance, video and painting she reimagines mythologies of mysticism, fertility and grief. Her visual language reflects her fascination with iconography, exploring how ancient images persist in contemporary life. She often works site-responsively in churches, gardens and sacred-looking places.
Over the last decade, much of Slingsby’s work has sought to convey lived experience of infertility. She has recently examined parallels between these experiences and other forms of loss, such as iconoclasm and ecological breakdown.
Slingsby studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University; and the Slade School of Art, University College 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.
