Gillian Holding
Obscure/reveal/obscure
Two steps forward, one step back. Paint, obscure, paint in to reveal again... That's a good day. Or, one step forward and two steps back....
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Gillian Holding
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Return to studio
Today marks the return to the studio. I don't like to feel I have a "September" return because I've found over the years that not coming...
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
ARTERY interview
Read my chat with Artery, New York, about the January 2021 show http://arterynyc.com/2021/01/12/spotlight-gillian-holding/
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Gillian Holding
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
Lockdown 3, Day 3
It's official. Back to Stay At Home and Avoid Non-Essential Travel. Having cleared the studio after the Artifact show work left for New...
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Gillian Holding
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
More abstracted figures
Showing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 from 13 January 2021 Sometimes the figure is truly lost and barely found...
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Gillian Holding
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
Figures and abstraction
One of the paintings showing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York from 13 January 2021 Painting process for me is about finding...
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Gillian Holding
- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
The allegorical impulse
Submission to uncertainty 2019 Oil on paper laid on canvas, 150cm x120cm x 2.5cm Allegory hasn’t had an easy run in the visual art world...
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Gillian Holding
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
Writing and Making
There's no substitute for making art. You can kid yourself that reading, writing and thinking are all a vital part of the process but...
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Gillian Holding
- Sep 14, 2017
- 2 min
Finding Figures
I’m well over halfway into a month long residency at East Street Arts. It’s completely open-ended; a chance to explore my practice and...
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Gillian Holding
- Mar 13, 2017
- 2 min
Iterative endeavours
Since returning from Florida, I’ve changed a fair few aspects of studio organisation and practice. In terms of studio set up, it’s...
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Gillian Holding
- Feb 6, 2017
- 2 min
A new way of feeling
I’ve been thinking about making art and “practicing” art in every sense of the word for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never tapped...
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Gillian Holding
- Aug 30, 2016
- 0 min
More flux stuff and mess stuff and not-knowing and not-thinking stuff. One useful discovery: oil pai
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Gillian Holding
- Aug 21, 2016
- 1 min
Flux
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make (attempt) critically engaged painting. If not painting for the sake of...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 27, 2016
- 1 min
Perfect Day
backs or fronts A perfect day. 1. I really really like the “backs” of these paintings which is good because if I hate the fronts when I...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 24, 2016
- 1 min
Slow-fast progress
work in progress (detail) Celestial Suburbia (Chapeltown) Can’t decide if progress is slow, fast, on schedule or behind. All that can be...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 23, 2016
- 1 min
Control and surrender
surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 22, 2016
- 1 min
Drawing phases
schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 21, 2016
- 1 min
Drawing media
experiments with media I thought I had one of those eureka moments yesterday. I thought I’d found the perfect medium to work directly...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 20, 2016
- 1 min
Blake and me…
studio floor study Apart from walking the streets of Chapeltown, Harehills and Scott Hall yesterday drawing streets of suburbia and...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 19, 2016
- 1 min
Next Stop Blake’s Jerusalem
ideas phase Sunday pack down. Monday tidy day. Tuesday back to serious brainstorming and drawing and activity. Blake’s Jerusalem. Weirdly...
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