Holly Elan Watson

Available Works

Biography

Holly Elan Watson (b.1995, UK) works with inks and acrylics to create intimate and playful paintings inspired by the everyday. Her works often explore sexuality, taste and touch through the depiction of various fruits and foods, playing with the viewer’s senses and engaging their imagination with a subtle humour. She uses bright, indulgent colours to paint her cropped and intimate works and celebrates the beauty in potentially overlooked moments and areas of merging and uncontrollable colour. Holly lives and works in London, UK.

Education

BA, University of West England, 2014-2017

Exhibitions

2022, Waterbourne, BLOQS, London, UK (Group)
2022, Habitiat, Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester, UK (Group)
2021, Strange Times, Dreamy 10a, London, UK (Group)
2021, Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Willesden Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, 3rd Prize Young Artists Summer Exhibition, Arts Depot, London, UK (Group)
2020, Emergent Vision, Uncovered Collective, Safehouse 1 & 2, London, UK (Group)
2020, Congruence, I Like Your Work, Online Exhibition (Group)
2020, Close Enough to Touch, BATS Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (Solo)
2019, 50 Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (Group)
2017, Exhibition III, The Space, Bristol, UK (Group)
2017, Moliere Project 3rd Edition, Lycée Molière Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Group)
2017, Eleventh, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Group)
2017, I'm Fine, The Crypt, St Paul's Church, Bristol, UK (Group)
2017, Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Group)
2017, Drag Rave, The Queenshilling, Bristol, UK (Group)
2016, Mish Mash, The Island, Bristol, UK (Group)
2016, End, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Group)
2016, Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Group)