Experience
TOAST Kunstkollektivet 8B, Denmark
Awamaki, Peru Girani Tessuti, Italy Maria Sigma, London Surface View, London Jenny King, Brighton
Exhibitions
UMBER, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol - 2024 Holloways of Ludlow Showroom & Gallery, Bath - 2024 Peckham Craft Show, Stroud & London - 2023 Solo exhibition - SHIFTS, TOAST Bath - 2022 Première Vision Designs, Paris - 2017 Texprint (Tex+), London - 2017 New Designers, London - 2017 University of Brighton Graduate Degree Show - 2017
Awards / Featured
V&A Magazine issue 64, RWA Gallery, TexSelect 2017, Nagoya University of the Arts, WGSN, Textile View magazine, The Weave Shed, Surface View Edits
Holly is an artist and designer specialising in bespoke hand woven tapestries based in Bath, Somerset. Her work is a playful meditation on shape and colour, deriving insight from the visceral qualities of light and its sensory and emotional responses. Flow, transition, energy and balance are themes investigated openly in the work.
The design process consists of preparatory 2D collage and paint experiments. These determine composition and colour stories, later translating into woven studies. Weaving remains a slow practice of ongoing discovery and enquiry. A sense of control and release are in continual conversation on the loom and as a narrative is steadily revealed, colour and shape engage to evoke unexpected visual harmonies.
Each piece is meticulously crafted, often over weeks or months and irregularities are an important element, further echoing the unique character of the tapestry. Recycled yarns and natural fibres such as cotton, linen, silk and varieties of British wool are used for weaving. Certified organic fibres are used as much as possible. Please get in touch with any queries regarding fibre sourcing and product material compositions.
