Join us for Holly Tomlinson’s Solo exhibition, exploring surreal, fantastical worlds where human and animal forms merge through playful, dreamlike oil paintings that question our connection to nature and evolution
📅Exhibition:16–21 May
Opening night: 15 May, 8:00–9:30pm (free entry)
Artist talk + drinks: 15 May, 6:30pm doors open, 7:00pm start.✨️
🎟 Tickets from £5 via our website
artspotlight.org
📍Unit 5, 30-34 Aire St, Leeds LS1 4HT
#leedsexhibition #leedsartists #fineartexhibition #leedsevent
So pleased to announce and invite you to my first solo show with UK Art Spotlight studio and gallery from the 16th of May to the 21st.
We will be having a free public opening night on May the 15th from 8:00pm to 9:30pm, and a private artist talk where I’ll talk about how my paintings come to life from 7:00pm, doors opening at 6:30pm— tickets are available on the UK Art Spotlight website starting from £5, link in bio.
Thank you @ukartspotlight for the beautiful posters and for the fabulous opportunity.
I hope to see you there!
Pleased to be featured in @ukartspotlight 's studio gallery opening 'A Sketchbook Show' with a sketchbook near and dear to my practice. Please come along, say hi, and celebrate!
#sketchbook #fineart #ukartspotlight
Earlier in October I had the pleasure to be involved with @normanreagallery 's recent exhibition 'Unbound: Art of the Mystical and the Magical'!
Unbound invited audiences beyond the boundaries of perception - into the alternate world of the magical, mystical, and the occult. I was delighted to explore the alternate world of the magical through a gel plate monoprinting workshop in which audiences were invited to make their own lucky rabbit's foot charm based on mythologies of witchcraft and its ties to lucky rabbit feet.
It was also a pleasure to exhibit Or So I've Heard and Granny! Run Quick! as a part of this show.
The press release and exhibition catalogue are available on the Norman Rea Gallery website.
Fancy a bit of escapism? Come and visit our new exhibition by two super talented local artists!
Instructions for Crossing Imaginary Roads
22nd August - 6th November
By @vvtpstudios and @seemsevergreen
#Surrealism #LeedsArtists #NewExhibition #SupportLocal #ArtGallery #Escapism #Leeds #ArtLovers
Instructions for Crossing Imaginary Roads
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From the 22nd of August to the 6th of November, @vvtpstudios and I have the pleasure of presenting Instructions for Crossing Imaginary Roads at @boweryleeds !
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Please come visit, we will be delighted to see you there.
#bowery #art #fineart #surrealism
There is a week left to view Essence of the Primal on display in the Leeds Arts University Rotunda gallery! On until the 11th of August.
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"In an increasingly over-sophisticated society that favours profit and production over experiences and living, humanity has become disconnected from our cardinal connections and behaviours. The works displayed explore the desire to belong, the intimacy shared between two forms, growing pain stories, and our relationship to the world around us. This is the ‘Essence of the Primal’.
‘Essence of the Primal’ is a window into the inherent raw and unfiltered interconnectedness imperative to the human condition. Through the female artist’s lens, the familiar landscape is reshaped to reveal the quiet tensions and tender absurdities that bind us to our most raw instincts, deeply rooted in worldly phenomena and unhindered by the rapid sophistication of modern man.
Together, the artists invite the audience to peer through the window and reject man’s dominion over our base instincts as though they are an immaterial quality. To exist as the primal human is to retain a certain lucidity amongst a limbo of connection and disconnection.
The exhibition includes work, and was co-curated, by Andreea Raducanu, Rose Porritt, Holly L. Tomlinson, Tafsia Muzib Dana."
- Essence of the Primal exhibition statement (2025)
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#fineart #surrealism #primal #essenceoftheprimal #curatorial
As We See It (2025), Made It (2025)
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A surreal portal into the absurdity of our anthropocentric society, an imaginative world that tells us to reconsider the 'human' as what we really are-- sophisticated fish. My LAU BA (hons) Fine Art degree show. I cannot thank everyone enough for attending and for receiving my art with such grace, kindness, and enthusiasm.
“Develop your legitimate strangeness” (René Char)
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#fineart #surrealism #degreeshow #leedsartsuniversity
