Art and Design visiting speaker: Gillian Holding

Gillian Holding was born in Chester, UK, and is based variously in Leeds, London and Paris. She maintains a studio with, and is a trustee of, East Street Arts, Leeds. 

Gillian Holding was born in Chester, UK, and is based variously in Leeds, London and Paris. She maintains a studio with, and is a trustee of, East Street Arts, Leeds. 

“I like to think I have a methodology. It mainly involves wandering for hours on foot, immersing myself in sub/urban ‘edgelands” and nameless bits of nowhere.

I walk anywhere: locally around my house and the environs of Leeds; London and Paris suburbs; and off the beaten track abroad whenever I get the opportunity.

I often mix media, and painting and collage. Partly it allows for a constant changing of visual vocabulary to express a perpetual shifting response to any given subject.

But partly too it’s an art form with disparate elements, and so defies society’s obsession with categorising the world, identity and place of the individual.”
– Gillian Holding

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