EXHIBITIONS: 2020: - 2020 Ferens Open Exhibition. Ferens Art Gallery. 2021: - Darby Rimmer MND Foundation Charity Auction. 2022: - The 20-21 Open Exhibition 2022. 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. - JUST US 22. Scunthorpe, John Leggott College. 2023: - BAMS Student Medal Competition, Central Saint Martins School of Art. - Uncertain Society, Watsonia Pavillion Cross Flatts Park, Leeds. - Child Friendly Leeds Live, Millenium Square, Leeds. 2024: - Fledgling. Leeds Art University. - BAMS Student Medal Competition. Birmingham School of Jewellery. - Printed Bound Market. Sunnybank Mills. - Sammich.co. Leeds. - 49 Good Artists, East Street Arts. - Look If You Want, Peckham Place. - GALLERY INFORMAL 3, Meta Space Gallery - Issue 51 - Science and Art - Collaboration and Influence, Haus a Rest - WAYZGOOSE, Assembly House. Leeds. 2025: - Omnipotence of Dream, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford. - Rooted in Yorkshire, Aire St Workshops, Leeds. - SCENE, Leeds Art University. Leeds. - Bloom, Leeds Art Union. Leeds. - The 137 Collective, Leeds Art University. Leeds. - Four Quarters, Leeds Art University. Leeds. CURRENTLY ON: - NEST Magazine, publication. Leeds. - Two Hysterical Women, North Art Gallery. Leeds. UPCOMING: - The Gap Between the Self and the Other, Aldo Branti. - MADE IT, Leeds Art University. Leeds. - The Essence of the Primal, Leeds Art University. Leeds.
ABOUT
Holly Louise Tomlinson is a British born (b. 2003) painter. Currently living in Leeds, UK, and studying a BA in Fine Art, her artistic journey is rooted in ideas of the satirical, and in elements of surrealistic and the fantastical. Tomlinson's work is a curious glance into unreal, imaginative worlds - a voyage into the oddity of humanity, animals, and existence.
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Tomlinson’s oil paintings are a phantasmagoria of portals into the psycho-surreal. The worlds shown to the audience, invited to glimpse into but not enter, are occupied with anthropomorphic figures of almost human, almost animal chimeras. With its titillating and hybridic nature, the work satirises anthropocentrism with the intent of embracing the surreal nature of human condition when perceived through the lens of evolutionary history. Her paintings express two declarative truths. One, humans are animals. Two, to live is but a strange, surreal existence - "we are sophisticated fish that learnt to walk."​
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"It is hybridic art satirising anthropocentrism with the intent of embracing the surreal nature of human existence."