Currently based in Japan, London born artist Holly Elan works with inks and fluid acrylics to paint intimate and playful scenes inspired by taste, touch and her surroundings. She graduated from UWE in 2017 with a BA in Fine art and Visual Culture, and completed the Turps Banana Correspondence Course in 2022.
b.1995

Exhibitions

2023
A Gentle Squeeze and a Bite
Studio Kura, Itoshima, JP

2022
A Sticky Fingers Picnic (solo) 
Stokey Pop Up, London, UK
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2022
Material Presence
The Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
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2022
Waterbourne
BLOQS, London, UK

2022
Habitat
Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester, UK

2021
Strange Times 
Dreamy 10a, London, UK

2021
Young Artists Summer Exhibition- third place
Arts Depot, London, UK

2021
Re:store Re:new Re:imagine
Willesden Gallery, London, UK
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2020 
Emergent Vision
Uncovered Collective, Safehouse 1 & 2, London, UK

2020 
Congruence
I Like Your Work, Online Exhibition

2020
Close Enough to Touch (solo exhibition)
BATS  Theatre, Wellington, NZ, 
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2019
50 Squared Art Prize
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, AU
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2017
Exhibition III
The Space, Bristol, UK
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2017
Moliere Project 3rd Edition
Lycée Molière  Bruxelles, Brussels, BEL
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2017
Eleventh
Spike Island, Bristol, UK
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2017
I'm Fine
The Crypt, St Paul's Church, Bristol, UK
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2017
Spike Open
Spike Island, Bristol, UK
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2017
Drag Rave
The Queenshilling, Bristol, UK
 
2016
Mish Mash
The Island, Bristol, UK
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2016
End
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, NLD
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2016
Spike Open
Spike Island, Bristol, UK

Residencies

2023  Studio Kura Artist Residency, Itoshima, JP 
2017  Can Serrat Artist Residency, Barcelona, ESP