This is Gemma Holzer
@gemma.holzer
Gemma is a visual artist currently based in London. Her work mixes personal nostalgia and reimagined histories, featuring strange creatures inhabiting nondescript spaces and alluding to artefacts involved in funerary practices, vessels that hold long forgotten memories.
Drawing inspiration from standing stones and Neolithic sites, she brings ancient imagery into contrast with newly manufactured representations, pulling past and present together. In her cut-out paintings, isolated figures are suspended by chains within steel frameworks, exploring physical discomfort, emotional strain, and disconnection. Like the relics they reference, their stories remain unknown.
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Recently I’ve been interested in the act of obscuring; picking and choosing what remains visible and what is hidden. I do this through the application of transparent and opaque paint, but also through the layering of materials.
The piece above is made using one of the many offcuts I kept from my time @rca_painting@royalcollegeofart
One in a series of smaller shapes that are taking form while new colours make their way into my palette 🍂🌳🍁🥀🌻
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Giving this another shot — after a few shutdowns, we’re back! This time, we’re heading behind the scenes with Gemma Holzer in her studio to see what goes into creating her work. Learn more about Gemma, Bloom, and our artists on our website. More to come soon.
Meet the artists!
We’re spotlighting five Auto Amor artists!
✨ Artists featured:
@gemma.holzer — London
@sam_jacksonart — Glasgow
@al_goughy — London
@hannahkabsalom_artist — London
@emma_bennett__ — Middlesbrough
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Want to take part in The Auto Amor Project? Pre-order your board now, make your work on it and
submit to any of our Open Calls. Link in bio
If selected by our guest curators, you’ll also be included in our 2026 Catalogue Collectif.
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Discover the poetic tension in Gemma Holzer’s (@gemma.holzer ) work, where steel meets stone, memory meets mythology, and emotion takes form through material. ✨
Dive into our latest artist interview and explore how her paintings balance the industrial and the spiritual, the contemporary and the ancient.
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What a turnout! Shout out @hyphacurates and everyone who came to the PV 💚
Coinciding with Frieze week, ‘A Moveable Feast’ is on until Sunday!
📍 Hypha HQ, Euston Tower, 286 Euston, London
Photos by Carlo Zambon @carlozambon
