CHRIS HOLLEY - ARTIST
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Five Easy Pieces I, after Stravinsky (detail) oil on canvas, 40x40cm (16x16")
CHRIS HOLLEY : CV                                                           email: [email protected]                    Fine Art BA (Hons)    

2025 July/Aug: summer season, visiting arts tutor at Guildford Institute: illustrated art talks for adults/children's sessions. 
     "     June: open call exhibition The Shape of Now, Zari Gallery, Newman Street, Fitzrovia, London, curator Georgina Dhillon
     "     open call Gardens of Life exhibition (1st series) Posk Gallery, Hammersmith, curatorJola Maria Mroszvzyk
     "     May: group stARTle exhibition at Farnham Potteries, Farnham
     "          "   :  Joining Noisy Women collective in multi-arts performative event, Leigh-on-Sea (see below)
     "      Feb:   Bangor Music Festival, artist in residence (see below)
    "       BEEP catalogue of longlisted artists selected for 2024 biennial exhibition  "I won't stay in a world without love."
 
LIVE IMPRO PAINTING/LIVE MUSIC

2025 May: Joining Noisy Women collective in multi-arts performative event, Leigh-on-Sea www.noisywomenpresent.co.uk/
            Feb: Artist in Residence, the 25th Bangor Music Festival of new, contemporary and experimental music:
  • Music the Muse solo exhibition of my abstract music paintings 
  • collaboration with composers/musicians to live-paint new music in the moment
  • performance of new music inspired by my paintings   www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/bangor-music-festival-2025/
2024  April: Laithwaites Wine Festival painting the sound of Berkshire Musicians Trust's choir Open Voices, music director                      Jamie Read
2022   July Live Painting of flamenco Performance at Battersea Spanish (Spanish and Latin Cultural Centre)
     batterseaspanish.com/events/annual-student-flamenco-performance/

2022   Thurs 17 June at restaurant 106 Baker Street  in the sound/art lab, live painting vibes of DJ Pedro Suave on canvas welcoming and spurring on keen private party guests to add their own creative mark. With participating artist Lizy Bending (in botanicals room) for EVENTSATHOLMES/  www.coalitionpresents.com/

Feeling the Beat: 
 2022                 May:  live visual art/music/ poetry workshop      with accompanying 'painting music' joint exhibition
                                April: live multi-arts performance                                "                        "                       "             "             "              "
                           
2021: Artist in /residence - Radford Rhythm and Blues Festival, Somerset


FILMING 
2021: TV appearance in art slot in Great British Railways BBC TV series with Michael Portillo in episode broadcast Friday 30 August, BBC2.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7kDjLYem8Q&list=PLxQ8F81rvGmdk53Yk6bsUH-A84B_7opqk&index=4


AWARD
2012  Art Jazzed Up: international competition to listen to submit a CD design for selected jazz music, Trinity School, Croydon,  artist Alan  Carlyon Smith and jazz radio broadcasterAlban Low.

JOINT COLLABORATIONS

2023       May/June: Phenomenal Female Exhibition,  The Bookery Gallerie, Marylebone
2022        Cocktails and Sensory evening
                   June - with artist Lizy Bending at restaurant 106 Baker Street, me in sound/art lab, live-painting DJ Pedro Suave music and                          interacting with many private  party guests, 6-9pm.
                    Music the Muse at the Menuhin:
                    
May - July: artists Aurelie Freoua, Gwen Kassenaar and Chris Holley wow concert-goers at this prestigious venue each with                      their similar and yet oh so different approaches to expressing music via painting.
2022         Feeling the Beat: 
                    April/May: joint exhibition accompanying workshop and performance) South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
                    April: live multi-arts performance with accompanying 'painting music' exhibition
                    May:  live visual art/music/ poetry workshop             "                  "                        "              "              " 
2021         Feeling the Beat: 
                   
 October: Workshop - artists and musicians share with students how to express live music in their own in-the-moment art
2021         Feeling the Beat: 
                   
July: Painting live music online seminar and history of art relating to music with artist Aurelie Freoua and musicians, led by                          curator Loucia Manopoulou at South  H
ill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell.
2021:        Feeling the Beat:  March to end June: virtual exhibition: Aurelie Freoua/Chris Holley - paintings about music, dance and                                  poetry www.southhillpark.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/
2021         Feeling the Beat: 
                    February: Painting live music online and In-Conversation with artist Aurelie Freoua and musicians, led by curator Loucia                                Manopoulou at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell. See event recording at www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-Cr_2vUXQ
                   

EXHIBITIONS since 2012

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2021      Threshold, d Contemporary, Grafton Street, Mayfair, London
2017/18 Rhythm Runs Riot, The International Yehudi Menuhin Music School, Surrey
2016       ​Rhythm Runs Rife, Music School, Wellington College, Berks, invited by Edward Twohig,   
                  Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers/trustee, Bankside Gallery, London
2012       AWARD WIN:  Art Jazzed Up: international exhibition and competition to listen to and submit a CD design for selected jazz music,
                  Trinity School, Croydon,  Alan Carlyon Smith/Alban Low.
2012       Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, my painting selected by panel member and abstract artist, Albert Irwin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024        Music the Muse, abstract music paintings, Bangor Music Festival
2017/18 Rhythm Runs Riot, The Yehudi Menuhin Music School: Concert Hall, Cobham
2016        ​Rhythm Runs Rife, Music School, Wellington College, Berks, invitation by Edward Twohig, Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-   
                    
Printmakers/trustee, Bankside Gallery, London
2015        Interpreting Terpsichore, Peacock Gallery, Reading
2014        R
hythm and Resonance, Henley Business School
2013        Dancer, Henley Studios, Duke Street, Henley-on-Thames

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025      stARTLE The Pottery, Farnham., jamshac Collective
2024      Routes, Casa Branca, Portugal
2022       Feeling the Beat, (collaborative exhibition accompanying workshop and performance) South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2021       Made It, The Pottery, Farnham., jamshac Collective
2019      Worlds Apart, Lewisham Art House, jamshac Collective

2018      Standing in the Light, Guildford Cathedral,KAN KAN  Collective 
2017      Threshold, Espacio Gallery, E2, KAN KAN Collective,
2016      Naturally Speaking, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, KAN KAN Collective, Bracknell, 
2016,     Melting Pot, Wellington College, Berks, KAN KAN Collective
2016     
Other Worlds, Riverhouse Art Centre Gallery, Walton-on-Thames, Jamshac Collective, 
2014     Ballets Russes Celebration Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Trinity Whitgift School, Croydon

2012     Weather Art and Music Festival, Reading

OPEN EXHIBITIONS
2025:   Summer: Gardens of Life exhibition. Details to follow - Jola Maria Mroszvzyk
2024:    Beep Painting Biennial Exhibition: to date my paintings (on stipulated musical theme) long listed, short list results awaited
2024     The Secret Salon IV, artist led Andree Adley, Peckham Safe House, Peckham
2024:    The Dark Side, artist led Boomer Gallery, London Bridge
2023:     Derelict, Peckham Safe House, Uncovered Collective

​2023      Southwark Park Open Exhibition
2023      Heat, artist led studio: Rupturexibit, Hampton Wick, Kingston, London
2022      Inside the Cage (in support of MIND) Blue House Yard, Wood Green, London N22
2022      Contemporary, Boomer Gallery, Tooley Street, London Bridge
2021      What is Art, Boomer Gallery, Tooley Street, London Bridge
2021      Threshold, d Contemporary, Grafton Street, Mayfair
2020      Open 2020, Littlehampton Museum (virtual exhibition)
2020      Bringing Us Together, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2020      Be Connected, Canterbury Museum Art Gallery

2019      100 Exhibition, Steamship Artist Project Space, Blackwall, London, Steamship artists' space
2019      
Connections, Espacio Gallery, London E1
2019      
Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory
2019      Ultra, Bargehouse, Bankside, London, Free Painters and Sculptors' Collective
2018      Fusion IV, The Cult House, Candid Arts, Islington, 
2017      Fusion III, Cult House, Candid Arts, Islington
2017      Disponere, Fifth Base Gallery, Brick Lane

2016      Fusion, Espacio Gallery, London E1, KAN KAN Collective
2016      
Red, Chroma Collections Artist Space, Peckham
2016      Summer Exhibition, Exhibit Here, Menier Gallery, London
2015     
Open, Free Painters and Sculptors
2014     Art Weeks, The Jam Factory Arts Centre, Oxford
2014     Resonance, Bath Fringe Arts Festival
2013     Resonance, The Ark, Basingstoke
2013     Summer Open, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

2012     The Women's Art Show, Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke
2012     Rising Stars, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham 
2012     Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, selected by panel member and abstract artist, Albert Irwin

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ART TALKS
  • 2024      May: adult art sessions for Berkshire Libraries: Unpacking Art I - lifting the lid on extremes in portraiture in parallel         with exhibitions  Frank Auerbach and John Singer Sargent exhibitions
  • 2023       April-Aug: adult and children's art sessions for Berkshire Libraries: Unpacking Art I, II and III and Let's Colour In I, II and III
  • 2022       Feb-May 2022: online arts sessions for adults and children continue... 
  • 2021       Lifting the Sky: fun, accessible and inspirational virtual adult and children's sessions on the arts.
  • Various dates/years - My Art Residency with the Guna Yala: Wokingham Library and Farnham Eco Cinema.
  • Various dates/years -The Impact of Diaghilev and Ballets Russes on the Visual Arts: Wokingham Arts Evenings; Trinity School, Croydon; two intakes of the London Russian Ballet School

RESIDENCIES
2024    Other Lands, Other Sounds art/music collaboration residency, Casa Branca, Portugal
2021    Avon, UK,
 artist in  residence - Radford Rhythm and Blues Festival, Nr Bath
2019    Panama, living with the indigenous Guna Yala people  La Wayaka international residency, https://www.lawayakacurrent.com
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​2015    Sicily, international murals residency, http://granitimurales.org
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COMMISSIONS
Berkshire, Oxon, Surrey and the USA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022   LandEscape online magazine special issue issuu.com/landescapeartpress/docs/vol-70
2019    WOMEN: Inspirational Quotes and Creative Responses
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2019    Artemis Poetry Magazine: article by poet Myra Schneider re our mutually inspired work. The creative alliance endures...
2019    Murze Issue Seven
2016    Creative Update (UCA Farnham) 
2012    My writings on The Impact of Diaghilev and Ballets Russes on visual art: held in the National Library of Art at London's V&A                         and in the archives of other major arts bodies here and overseas.

COLLECTIONS
​Private collections in Avon, Berkshire, Devon, London, Oxon, Somerset, Surrey, Spain and the USA.

ART EDUCATION
Farnham UCA: Fine Art BA (Hons)

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