Education
MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School of 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 College of Art, London 2002-2003
Awards
2023 Exeter Contemporary Open, joint award winner
2022 Film London Jarman Award (nominated)
2022 a-n The Artists Information Company, Time Space Money bursary
2019 Project Grant, Arts Council England
2019 a-n The Artists Information Company, Time Space Money bursary
2017 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
2015 a-n The Artists Information Company, Go and See bursary
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2019 Approaching Virditias (Epilogue), CRATE, Margate
2018 Approaching Viriditas, Margate Festival, Margate
2016 A Song of Ascents, FEM_16 and Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
The High Places, commission for Kunst Vardo TV
Knotted Mass II, Finishing Touch, London
2015 Knotted Mass, DKUK, London
Behind the Curtain, Tintype Gallery, London
2012 PROPS FOR THE SKY, SHIFT., London
2009 It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down, Christ Church Spitalfields, London
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2024 Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff
SAMPLELYSIUM Cork + Swansea, Elysium, Swansea
Telepathic Duets, Ocells al Cap, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
2023 Until you touch it, Stiwdio Griffith, Swansea
Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
In Search of the Miraculous, Norwich and Norfolk Festival and screening at England & Co, London
2022 Abbas Zahedi, Waiting With {Sonic Support}, Frieze London
40 Years, South Square Gallery, Bradford
Entrance, Resort Gallery, Margate
2021 Sunken Ecologies, Margate NOW
Stations 2021, Arts Chaplaincy Projects
The Spiritual Exercises II, Arts Chaplaincy Projects
2020 Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London
Super Market, Circus Artspace, Inverness
The Spiritual Exercises, Arts Chaplaincy Projects
2019 How small a thought, Margate Festival, Margate
The Immeasurable, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
Transitions, Cavò, Trieste
Fertility Fest, The Barbican, London
emBEDded Stories, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol
2018 Ecstasy in Norwich, Lower Green, Norwich
Radio Thamesmead (RTM fm), TACO, London
Visions of Science, The Edge, University of Bath
Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House and Gardens, London
Nit de Performance, Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona
Transitional States, Project Space Plus, Lincoln; Peltz Gallery, London; CCC Barcelona; and LABS Bologna
2017 PARKED, Saint John's Garden, London
Venice Agendas: The Contract, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Festal Favours, Charlbury Festival, Oxfordshire
2016 Cabaret Melancholique, Peckham Liberal Club, London
Parlour Arboretum, Harcourt Arboretum, Oxfordshire
Beyond Seven Mountains, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Corby
ALT (Art Licks Trading) shop and performance night, Safehouse 1, London
Lupercalia Live, Bosse and Baum, London
Duration and Dialogue, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
2015 Cabaret Melancholique, St Mark’s Hall, Dalston, London
FEM_15, La Bonne, Barcelona
Foam, Grand Union, Birmingham and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2014 The Centre for Remote Possibilities, Revolver II, Matt’s Gallery, London
You cannot step twice into the same river, Pump House Gallery, London
Foam, P/N Project Space; ANDOR; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
Sweet Thames Run Softly, The Mayflower, London
Art (After) Death, Highgate Cemetery, London
EC1 and WC1 Galleries Day, Tintype Gallery, London
After/Hours/Drop/Box, Spike Island, Bristol
2013 After/Hours/Drop/Box, Modern Art Oxford
My Head is an Animal, South Square, Bradford
Stop, Look, Listen! Art Licks Weekend performance programme, London
Beg, Borrow Steal #2, Dilston Grove, London
LUPA at SUPERNORMAL, Brazier’s Park, Oxfordshire
Totemic Festival, Freud Museum, London
Lore of the Land, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. Co-curated with Matilda Strang
2012 LIPA, ICA, London
Art Licks Annual, ICA, London
20 rue de Jacob, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland
SUPERNORMAL, Brazier’s Park, Oxfordshire
LUPA 7, London
2011 Acoustic Sessions, SHIFT. at Angus Hughes Gallery, London
POW (Performance Over the Web), Fold Gallery, London
Soundings, workinprogress at St George’s Anglican Chapel, Venice
More Soup and Tart, the Barbican, London
Point of Conversation, 918 Bathurst Art Center, Toronto
Reflections in a Field of Heaven, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
2010 Live Friday, Modern Art Oxford
Babel, WW Gallery, London. Co-curated with Natasha Bailey
FEM 10, Girona, Spain
2009 Both Ends Burning, WW Gallery, London
Melquiades, The Crypt Gallery, London
Making Mistakes, Paradise Row, London
2008 East End Collaborations, Queen Mary University, London
Making Mistakes, The Wallis Gallery, London
2007 Zelda Rubenstein, 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 and South Hill Park, Bracknell
2006 The Heat is Rising, Modern Art Oxford
2005 Cabaret Melancholique, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea
RCA Secret, RCA, London
&Now, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
Montana Butch, The Great Eastern Hotel, London
2004 Cabaret Melancholique, Mildmay Club, London
Atomic Art Bomb, Modern Art Oxford
Residencies
FEM_19, Gresol Art, Madremanya, Spain, December 2019
Talkie Walkie, Walkie Talkie, Fructose, Dunkerque, July 2019
FEM_16, Gresol Art and Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, December 2016
FEM_15, Gresol Art, Madremanya/Girona/Barcelona. November 2015
Simon Faithfull's Mobile Research Station No. 1.2, Skulpturenpark Zentrum, Berlin, October 2009
Artist in residence, South Hill Park, Bracknell, March-April 2007
Talks, Teaching and Judging
Maternal Bodies Symposium, University of Birmingham, 2023
Embodied Practice: Exploring loss and grief through art-making, Axisweb, 2023
(M)otherhood: Art and Life, Tate St Ives, 2023
Lecturer in Fine Art, Swansea College of Art, UWTSD, 2023-present
Visiting Lecturer, Winchester School of Art, 2017-2022
Visiting Lecturer, Swansea College of Art, UWTSD, 2012-13, 2021-22
Religion & Art forum, March 2021
Crit facilitator for University for the Creative Arts Canterbury students, CRATE, Margate, 2019-20
Knotted Mass II book launch: In conversation with Beth Bramich, Flat Time House, London, 2018
Knotted Mass II book launch: In conversation with Beth Bramich, Limbo, Margate, 2018
Exhibition panel discussion: Girls Gone Wild, University of Lincoln, 2018
Visiting Lecturer, UWE, Bristol, 2016-2018
Workshop leader, Wimbledon College of Art, 2016
Visiting artist,The Warehouse Art School, OVADA, Oxford, 2016
In conversation with Morgan Quaintance, Tintype, London, 2015
Judging Panel, Nottingham Castle Open, 2013
Judging Panel, Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2007-2022
Bibliography
Event Report: In Search of the Miraculous, Laura Moffatt, Art and Christianity issue 115, Autumn 2023
Margate Now: Sunken Ecologies, Ellen Mara De Wachter, Art Monthly issue 451, November 2021
Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science, exhibition catalogue, edited by Dr Chiara Beccalossi, February 2018
Holly Slingsby, Grain Moon, Art Licks issue 22, March 2018
Artist Interview: Holly Slingsby, Axisweb, 1 February 2018
Holly Slingsby and Beth Bramich, Knotted Mass II, published by Publication Studio London, January 2018
Holly Slingsby, Art Worlds Margate, Artquest, October 2017
Artist of the Month: Holly Slingsby, Axisweb, 3 February 2017
Holly Slingsby, Margate City Report, Art Licks Issue 20, Spring 2017
Beyond Seven Mountains, James Steventon, a-n, 30 August 2016
Holly Slingsby: Behind the Curtain, review by Helena Haimes, this is tomorrow, 2 June 2015
Holly Slingsby – Behind the Curtain at Tintype Gallery, The Upcoming, Jodie Shelpy, 28 May 2015
Unpeeling Reflections, exhibition text for Behind the Curtain, B. Catling, 8 April 2015
FEAST, a text work commissioned for Neru Phyut, edited by Ross Taylor, 2014
My Head is an Animal, exhibition catalogue, edited by Clare Nadal, 2013
My Head is an Animal – exhibition review, Frances Lightbound, 2|1|4|1, 2013
My Head is an Animal – exhibition review, Tim Barnes, WOW247, 2013
Being Without Walls: Art Licks Weekend 2013, edited by Holly Willats, 2013
#7: Holly Slingsby, Le Contact Lens, 2013
Nottingham Castle Open: Spotlight on the judges – Holly Slingsby, Jennifer Gleadell, 27 August 2013
Lock In Performance Art at the ICA: Elena Colman Reflects, Maude Magazine, 2012
Holly Slingsby interview, Jack Catling, Parlour Collective website, 2012
Venn Diagrams (artist’s project), Art Licks Issue 4, Summer 2011
More Soup and Tart at the Barbican, Amelia Gregory, Amelia’s Magazine online, 20 April 2011
Speed, Light, Time/ Colour, Scale, Space, published by the Slade, London, 2010
The Independent, 17 November 2006: Work featured in preview of RCA Secret Exhibition
The Pestle, Spring 2006: Interview by Anna Horakova