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Gillian Holding
Nov 2, 20241 min read
Art magazine interview
https://aatonau.com/gillian-holding-navigating-the-intersections-of-law-and-art/
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Gillian Holding
Oct 3, 20241 min read
Show opening
There is something very special about the opening of a show with new work. Stress is unavoidable in the few months leading up to it....
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Gillian Holding
Apr 17, 20241 min read
Printmaking tools and painting
I had one of those Eureka! moments on Monday. I’ve been doing a lot of printmaking and I’ve mentioned before how diverting into other...
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Gillian Holding
Feb 7, 20241 min read
Frantic sketching
In an era when it seems so many can work away from office/home/whilst travelling, and it's easy for an artist to carry a sketchbook...
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Gillian Holding
Jan 31, 20241 min read
Playing with print
Some time ago I read about the principle of obliquity: the idea that to reach a goal, you need to go sideways a bit. Take a few paths...
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Gillian Holding
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Drawing by feeling
It's not unusual for me to draw or paint with my eyes closed when im working from imagination. Sounds a bit mad, doesn't it? But it's...
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Gillian Holding
Sep 24, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20160 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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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