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Skye Holland studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martin’s School of Art, graduating in 1987. In 1991 she moved to South Africa with her family for a work opportunity and spent ten subsequent years working as an artist but also as a teacher and sign language interpreter for national television (including the live coverage of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as President in 1994). She also became a respected art consultant to a number of blue-chip corporate collections of contemporary art in SA, one of which is the MTN collection - the largest collection of contemporary South African printworks in southern Africa. She has co-authored a series of art educational resource books and her own works are in a number of important private and corporate collections.
Moving back to the UK in 2000, Skye is now living and working in Twickenham, her studio is on Eel Pie Island. Her sell out show in 2008 ‘Out of the Ashes’ was a landmark celebration of a year’s work devoted to her artmaking and the exploration of new ideas and media, re- establishing herself firmly on the London contemporary art scene.
Skye’s work is centered around personal narratives, the ‘Serial Reflections’ being literally that - day to day thoughts and happenings which take on personal meaning and have universal and shared perception and appeal. Some read like Hogarthian fables or proverbs and tap into feelings of desire, nostalgia and sometimes wickedness. The larger works are a celebration of nature, energy and life, resplendent in colour and surface detail whilst also capturing the magic of light and movement.
Skye will work to commission.
