CHRIS HOLLEY - ARTIST
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 CHRIS HOLLEY  expressive visual artist and arts communicator 
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Music of the Spheres I (after composer Rued Langgaard) detail 36x24in (91x61cm)
2025
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

June: open call exhibition The Shape of Now, Zari Gallery, Newman Street, Fitzrovia, London, curator Georgina Dhillon
May: stARTle group exhibition (UCA Farnham alumni collective Jamshac) at Farnham Potteries.
            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.
2024
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

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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. 


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    • Music Abstract
    • Live Art, Live Music
    • Dance Works on Paper
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