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    ARTERY interview
    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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    Lockdown 3, Day 3
    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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    More abstracted figures
    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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    Figures and abstraction
    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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    The allegorical impulse
    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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    Writing and Making
    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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    Finding Figures
    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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    Iterative endeavours
    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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    A new way of feeling
    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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    More flux stuff and mess stuff and not-knowing and not-thinking stuff. One useful discovery: oil pai
    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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    Flux
    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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    Perfect Day
    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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    Slow-fast progress
    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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    Control and surrender
    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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    Drawing phases
    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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    Drawing media
    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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    Blake and me…
    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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    Next Stop Blake’s Jerusalem
    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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    Left Bank Residency: day 10
    Gillian Holding
    • Apr 14, 2016
    • 2 min

    Left Bank Residency: day 10

    No real surprise there. Moving up in scale never allows for replication of the studies, and effectively it’s all still a work in...
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    Left Bank Residency: Day 9 
    Gillian Holding
    • Apr 13, 2016
    • 1 min

    Left 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...
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