CHRIS HOLLEY expressive visual artist and arts communicator
Music of the Spheres I (after composer Rued Langgaard) detail 36x24in (91x61cm)
2026
May: Tiger, Tiger! Thurs 28 May - children's colour, cut and collage, The Guildford Institute www.guildford-institute.org.uk/
March: Signals East Festival, University of East London - working as visual artist with the music students
Feb: Music the Muse III solo exhibition, The Guildford Institute www.guildford-institute.org.uk/
" Unpacking Art Talks: 1. Fri 6 Feb - The Remarkable Rossettis, 2. Portraiture - Singer Sargent and Frank Auerbach
2025/6
Dec/Jan: group Legacy exhibition, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell www.southhillpark org uk
Aug: long listed for London Art Collective/Saatchi open call ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined.
July/Aug: summer season, arts tutor at Guildford Institute: illustrated children's and adults' art sessions.
" " : open call Gardens of Life exhibition (1st series) Posk Gallery, Hammersmith, curator Jola Maria Mroszvzyk
July: open call Muse - Metamorphosis exhibition, Glena Art Studio, London NW11, curator Galina Hristova
June: open call exhibition The Shape of the New, Zari Gallery, Newman Street, Fitzrovia, London, curator Georgina Dhillon
May: stARTle alumni group exhibition (UCA Farnham), Farnham Pottery.
Joining Noisy Women collective in multi-arts performative event Sat 17 May, Leigh-on-Sea www.noisywomenpresent.co.uk/
March: touch to See art session for the visually impaired, The Base, Newbury thebasegreenham.co.uk/event/touch_to_see
Feb: Artist in Residence at the 25th Bangor Music Festival www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/bangor-music-festival-2025/ featuring:
Residency: Aug/Sept - Other Lands, Other Sounds visual art/music residency, Portugal
Exhibitions: September - long listed for BEEP Intl Painting Competition
August - Routes, Casa Branca, Portugal
June - Secret Salon IV, Safe House 1, Peckham
May - The Dark Side, Boomer Gallery, London Bridge
Illustrated Art Talks
May: Unpacking Art series for Berkshire Libraries: lifting the lid on extremes in portraiture: in parallel with exhibitions by Frank Auerbach and John Singer Sargent
May: Tiger, Tiger! Thurs 28 May - children's colour, cut and collage, The Guildford Institute www.guildford-institute.org.uk/
March: Signals East Festival, University of East London - working as visual artist with the music students
Feb: Music the Muse III solo exhibition, The Guildford Institute www.guildford-institute.org.uk/
" Unpacking Art Talks: 1. Fri 6 Feb - The Remarkable Rossettis, 2. Portraiture - Singer Sargent and Frank Auerbach
2025/6
Dec/Jan: group Legacy exhibition, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell www.southhillpark org uk
Aug: long listed for London Art Collective/Saatchi open call ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined.
July/Aug: summer season, arts tutor at Guildford Institute: illustrated children's and adults' art sessions.
" " : open call Gardens of Life exhibition (1st series) Posk Gallery, Hammersmith, curator Jola Maria Mroszvzyk
July: open call Muse - Metamorphosis exhibition, Glena Art Studio, London NW11, curator Galina Hristova
June: open call exhibition The Shape of the New, Zari Gallery, Newman Street, Fitzrovia, London, curator Georgina Dhillon
May: stARTle alumni group exhibition (UCA Farnham), Farnham Pottery.
Joining Noisy Women collective in multi-arts performative event Sat 17 May, Leigh-on-Sea www.noisywomenpresent.co.uk/
March: touch to See art session for the visually impaired, The Base, Newbury thebasegreenham.co.uk/event/touch_to_see
Feb: Artist in Residence at the 25th Bangor Music Festival www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/bangor-music-festival-2025/ featuring:
- my Music the Muse solo exhibition of abstract music paintings
- collaboration with composers/musicians to live-paint new music in the moment
- premieres of new music inspired by my paintings - which are about music
- children's art workshops.
Residency: Aug/Sept - Other Lands, Other Sounds visual art/music residency, Portugal
Exhibitions: September - long listed for BEEP Intl Painting Competition
August - Routes, Casa Branca, Portugal
June - Secret Salon IV, Safe House 1, Peckham
May - The Dark Side, Boomer Gallery, London Bridge
Illustrated Art Talks
May: Unpacking Art series for Berkshire Libraries: lifting the lid on extremes in portraiture: in parallel with exhibitions by Frank Auerbach and John Singer Sargent
FUN TIME Art residency at Bangor Music Festival Feb 2025, painting in-the-moment for the premiere of Mikel Kuehn's Dance in Canon.
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FUN TIME
Art Slot TV appearance instructing Michael Portillo at Farnham Castle in Guildford to Aldershot episode of Great British Railway Journeys. |