HOGCHESTER ARTS

 

Holly Stevenson is an independent artist living and working in London.

Ceramic and psychoanalytic processes enmesh within her work and the resulting idiosyncratic forms play with associations trapped between mind and bodily matters.

 

She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design, fine art MA in 2011 and was awarded the MFI Flat Time House Graduate Award, supported by the John Latham Foundation. 

In 2021 she received her first public sculpture commission for Another Mother from theCOLAB for The Artist’s Garden and her focus on ceramics in the expanded field led her to take part in Frieze Sculpture 2023 where she showed The Debate, an installation that reinterpreted the symbolic egg.

 

Psychoanalysis is understood to be both a practical and informative part of art making and her ongoing studio project, Sigmund Freud’s Ashtray, explores the eponymously labelled artefact in clay as a fluid bodily metaphor. Holly will hold an exhibition at The Freud Museum, London in May 2025. 

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

Frieze Sculpture, curated by Fatoş Üstek, London, UK(2023)

Shoppers, Shoes & Sacks, AWITA x J W ANDERSON, offsite Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK (2022)

ANOTHER MOTHER Public sculpture commission, The CoLAB, Temple, The Artist’s Garden, London, UK (2022)

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Holly Stevenson, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK (2021)

What does it mean to Mother? NEW COMMISSION, Procreate Project, London, UK (2020)

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Selected Group Exhibitions 

Suppose You Are Not, curated by Selen Ansen, Arter, Istanbul, TR (2024)

The Nature of Things, curated by Jane Hayes Greenwood, Castor Gallery (2024)

Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London, UK (2024)

Caroline Gray & Holly Stevenson, Salon Show II, Caroline Fisher Projects, London, UK (2024)

Body Poetics, GIANT, Bournemouth, UK (2023)

Decentering in Ceramics, Laboratorio Piramide, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rome, IT (2023)

Preconscious Landscape, Ainalaiyn Space, Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK (2023)

HAND-HELD: Itinerant exhibition with guest artists, curated by Ingrid Bethon-Moine & Holly Stevenson, London, UK (2022)

An Ode to Orlando, curated by Marcelle Joseph Projects, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2022)

STILL LIFE / LIFE STILL, OHSH Projects, London, UK(2022)

Georgia Szmerling X Holly Stevenson, Peer/Peer, Art et al. Season One Cromwell Place, London, UK (2022)

Body en Thrall, GIRL POWER and Marcelle Joseph Projects, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, UK(2022)

BORN FROM EARTH, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2022)

A Space for Healing, The Healing Collective, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth, UK (2022)

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