Gillian HoldingJan 13, 20211 minARTERY interviewRead my chat with Artery, New York, about the January 2021 show http://arterynyc.com/2021/01/12/spotlight-gillian-holding/
Gillian HoldingJan 7, 20211 minLockdown 3, Day 3It's official. Back to Stay At Home and Avoid Non-Essential Travel. Having cleared the studio after the Artifact show work left for New...
Gillian HoldingDec 31, 20201 minMore abstracted figuresShowing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 from 13 January 2021 Sometimes the figure is truly lost and barely found...
Gillian HoldingDec 21, 20201 minFigures and abstractionOne of the paintings showing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York from 13 January 2021 Painting process for me is about finding...
Gillian HoldingDec 12, 20203 minThe allegorical impulseSubmission 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...
Gillian HoldingNov 26, 20201 minWriting and MakingThere's no substitute for making art. You can kid yourself that reading, writing and thinking are all a vital part of the process but...
Gillian HoldingSep 14, 20172 minFinding FiguresI’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...
Gillian HoldingMar 13, 20172 minIterative endeavoursSince returning from Florida, I’ve changed a fair few aspects of studio organisation and practice. In terms of studio set up, it’s...
Gillian HoldingFeb 6, 20172 minA new way of feelingI’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...
Gillian HoldingAug 30, 20160 minMore flux stuff and mess stuff and not-knowing and not-thinking stuff. One useful discovery: oil pai
Gillian HoldingAug 21, 20161 minFluxI’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make (attempt) critically engaged painting. If not painting for the sake of...
Gillian HoldingApr 27, 20161 minPerfect Daybacks 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...
Gillian HoldingApr 24, 20161 minSlow-fast progresswork in progress (detail) Celestial Suburbia (Chapeltown) Can’t decide if progress is slow, fast, on schedule or behind. All that can be...
Gillian HoldingApr 23, 20161 minControl and surrendersurrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...
Gillian HoldingApr 22, 20161 minDrawing phasesschematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...
Gillian HoldingApr 21, 20161 minDrawing mediaexperiments with media I thought I had one of those eureka moments yesterday. I thought I’d found the perfect medium to work directly...
Gillian HoldingApr 20, 20161 minBlake and me…studio floor study Apart from walking the streets of Chapeltown, Harehills and Scott Hall yesterday drawing streets of suburbia and...
Gillian HoldingApr 19, 20161 minNext Stop Blake’s Jerusalemideas phase Sunday pack down. Monday tidy day. Tuesday back to serious brainstorming and drawing and activity. Blake’s Jerusalem. Weirdly...
Gillian HoldingApr 14, 20162 minLeft Bank Residency: day 10No real surprise there. Moving up in scale never allows for replication of the studies, and effectively it’s all still a work in...
Gillian HoldingApr 13, 20161 minLeft Bank Residency: Day 9 The result was I finally put down the brush at 11pm. Since this is not the summer soltice, it meant I was painting in the dark. Add the...