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Holly Stevenson is an independent artist living and working in London. Ceramic and psychoanalytic processes enmesh within her work and the resulting idiosyncratic forms play with associations trapped between mind and bodily matters.
She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design, fine art MA in 2011 and was awarded the MFI Flat Time House Graduate Award, supported by the John Latham Foundation. Stevenson has been selected for the Mother Art Prize 2020 and a New Commission by Procreate Project funded by the Arts Council England. In 2021 she received her first public sculpture commission for Another Mother from theCOLAB for The Artist’s Garden and her focus on ceramics in the expanded field led her to take part in Frieze Sculpture 2023 where she showed The Debate, an installation that reinterpreted the symbolic egg.
Psychoanalysis is understood to be both a practical and informative part of art making and her ongoing studio project, Sigmund Freud’s Ashtray, explores the eponymously labelled artefact in clay as a fluid bodily metaphor: Her vessels diligently embody the ashtray and cigar as though they were two gendered male and female forms, the yonic ovular dish and the cylindrical phallic cigar, as she reconfigures them into a material language of her own.
Stevenson will hold solo exhibitions at the Jane McAdam Freud Museum and Gallery in the Czech Republic and the Freud Museum, London in 2024/25. Recent group shows include The Drawing Biennale 2024, The Drawing Room, London, Mary Mary, The COLAB at The Artist’s Garden, London, Suppose You Are Not, Arter Space, Istanbul, The Nature of Things, CASTOR Gallery, London.