Holly Rowan Hesson

CV & Education

Solo exhibitions 

• Echo, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Warrington, 2017
• Assembly, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, 2016
• New Work, & Model, Leeds, 2016
• Only forward?, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, 2013

Selected group exhibitions

• Conversation in Colour, arebyte, London, 2018
• Micro-commission, The Art House, Wakefield, 2018
• Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coventry, 2017 
• Creekside Open, A.P.T Gallery, London, 2017 (selected by Jordan Baseman, artist and Head of Sculpture, RCA)
• Graft, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2017
• Phantom, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 2017 
• PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2016 (selected by Mark Doyle, Touchstones Gallery Curator and Collections Manager, Lisa Denyer, artist and previous winner, Magnus Quaife, artist and lecturer at MMU, Robert Miller, contemporary art collector)
• The Manchester Contemporary, selected and presented by Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2015
• Tracing PAPER, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, 2015
• Open House, Federation House, Manchester, 2015
• Glitter & Gold, Cardroom, Manchester, 2014
• MULTIPLY, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2014
• Winter Exhibition, Artsmill, Hebden Bridge, 2014
• Bankley Open, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, 2014 (selected by Kate Jesson, Curator at Manchester Art Gallery, Kwong Lee, Director at Castlefield Gallery, Chris Bloor, Co-director at &Model gallery and Peter Seal, artist and previous winner)
• HOARD, HOARD, Leeds, 2014
• Society of Island Universes, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, 2014
• Out With The Bath Water, HOARD, Leeds, 2014
• Artifice, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2013
• Catalyst, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, 2013
• Saatchi Screen, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2013
• Summer Show, Malgras Naudet, Manchester, 2013
• DISTORT:WARP, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2013
• Journeys and Migrations, Hand Made in Bradford, Bradford, 2012
• Reverb, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, 2012
• Northern Lights, Snug Gallery, Hebden Bridge, 2012

Residencies

• AA2A Artist in Residence, York St John University, 2018-9
• & Model residency, & Model, Leeds, 2016
• From the Rooftops, The Penthouse NQ, Manchester, 2013

Awards

• Board Member of Royal Society of Sculptors, 2019
• Member of Royal Society of Sculptors, 2019
• A-n Artist Bursary, 2019
• Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award, 2018
• Arts Council England Grants for the arts award, 2017
• PS Mirabel Open prize commendation (selected by Mark Doyle, Touchstones Gallery Curator and Collections Manager, Lisa Denyer, artist and previous winner, Magnus Quaife, artist and lecturer at MMU, Robert Miller, contemporary art collector), 2016
• A-n Professional Development Bursary, 2016
• Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award, 2016
• Arts Council Grants for the arts award, 2015
• Castlefield Gallery/ Creative Industries Trafford individual mentoring award, 2015
• Tracing PAPER by PAPER Gallery award, 2015
• Bankley Gallery Open Call first prize winner (selected by Kate Jesson, Curator at Manchester Art Gallery, Kwong Lee, Director at Castlefield Gallery, Chris Bloor, Co-director at &Model gallery and Peter Seal, previous winner), 2014

Education

• MA Contemporary Fine Art (Distinction), University of Salford, 2013
• Certificate in Art and Design (Distinction), Calderdale College, 2010

Articles

• Axisweb - Five2Watch: Installation, 2018
• Art in Liverpool - Featured Artist: Holly Rowan Hesson at Pyramid Arts Centre, 2017
• Corridor8 - Holly Rowan Hesson: Echo | Pyramid Arts Centre, 2017
• This is tomorrow - Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art review, 2017
• A-n - Coventry Biennial 2017 review: a springboard for new responses, 2017
• Creative Tourist - Graft at PS Mirabel, 2017
• Precarious Aesthetics: on the recent work of Holly Rowan Hesson – Derek Horton,  2016
• Axisweb – Five to Watch at The Manchester Contemporary feature, 2015
• Axisweb – Artist of the Month, Holly Rowan Hesson, 2015
• Corridor 8 – Review: Holly Rowan Hesson – Residency, The Penthouse, Manchester, 2013

Location

Based near Leeds, UK.

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