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BIO
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Holly Jones is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates mixed media installation, textile-based soft sculpture, and ceramics. She holds a BA in Art and Psychology from the University of Reading (2023) and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2025).
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Rooted in materiality and transformation, Jones’ work engages with the tension between the organic and the synthetic, the familiar and the uncanny. Drawing from biomorphic forms and natural phenomena, she reconfigures these references into speculative objects that defy easy categorisation. Through the use of neon fur, synthetic surfaces, and an exaggerated material excess, her sculptures oscillate between attraction and repulsion, playfulness and unease.
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Her practice extends beyond static sculpture into moving image and audio work, where performance and video become tools for activating and expanding the narrative potential of her work. Often inserting herself into these filmic spaces, she explores the performativity of the sculptural object, constructing immersive environments in which humour, absurdity, and the eerie converge. Installed in dialogue, her sculptures and videos generate dynamic, affective spaces that blur the boundary between the real and the surreal.
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Jones’ work is deeply informed by queerness, not only in its aesthetic sensibilities—softness, excess, camp—but in its refusal of fixed meaning. By subverting conventional taxonomies of form, material, and function. Her practice gestures toward new modes of relation and world-building.
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Education
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2025 MA Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, London, UK
2023 BA University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2024
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Postgraduate Showcase, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
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Forbidden Fruit, Fundación Barcelo, Mallorca, Spain
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The Cost of Opportunity, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
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Dress Reherseal, Triangle Gallery, London, UK
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Haphazard, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
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Host, St Saviours, Pimlico, London, UK
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Its a wee bit nippy in ol'Blightly, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
Everything Must Go, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
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The Third Space, AVA Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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ARC, The Queer Museum, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
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2023
One, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
The Little Show, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
Departure Show, Chelsea School of Arts, London, UK
The Epilogue, Reading School of Art 2023 Degree Show, Tobi 1, Reading, UK
Beyond a Muse, University of Reading Library, Reading, UK
Arachnophobia and other Tales, Thames Tower, Reading, UK
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2022
Counter-Urbanisation, Online, Shanghai
The Beginning of the End, Tobi 1, Reading, UK
Masquerade, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, UK
2021
The Group Show, Broad Street Mall, Reading, UK
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2017
The National Students’ Art Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
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Publications / Press
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2023 The Epilogue, Reading School of Art Degree Show 2023 Publication
2023 HS Projects, 'Arachnophobia and Other Tales'
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2023 India Education Dairy, 'Arachnophobia and Other Tales'
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Curation
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2024 The Cost of Opportunity, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
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2024 The Third Space, Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Residencies
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2024 ADEMA, Majorca, Spain
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Scholarships/Awards
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2023 UAL Home Postgraduate Scholarship, London