HOLLY HUMPHRIES
Holly Humphries (1999) makes works about desire and the desire to devour. Her paintings analyse the parallels of our literal, visceral, sensual selves, to food and its shiny, pleasing features. Painting in sharp, thick and thin layers and varying hot red hues she tempts feelings of lust and the strong passion to squeeze. Curvaceous, abstract shapes and outlines merge often into figurative details of fruit, suggestive of feminine bodies and plastic material.
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Education
2022 - 2023 East Bristol Contemporary
2019 - 2022 Fine Art BA University of the West of England
Grants & Awards
2022 Spike Island & Creative Youth Network Engagement Fellowship for Artists programme with Anna Haydock-Wilson
2022 Visual Arts Commission, Creative Youth Network, Arts Council England
2022 James Norman Award, University of the West of England
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Ooo, The Arts Mansion, Bristol
2022 Seducing Humans, The Station, Bristol
2021 Anatomy Banana, Spike Island UWE Studios, Bristol
Group Exhibitions
2024 Cellar Door Valentines, The Louisiana, Bristol
2023 Let Them Eat Fake, Brushes With Greatness Gallery, London
2023 EBC Big Summer Blow Out, Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol
2023 EBC WIP, St Annes House, Bristol
2022 Grason Perry's Museums at Night, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
2022 A Cowboy Looks into a Cage, F Block, Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol