ELLIS HOLMAN
Ellis Holman (born 27 January 1997, The Netherlands) is a visual artist who draws inspiration from the landscapes around her and tells their narratives by translating them into artworks. She uses her passion for film and photography to analyze her surroundings and then works with an iterative process to translate what she finds fascinating into her own visual language. A process in which she keeps searching for the right combination of material, technique, form, and movement that reflect the atmosphere and poetry of a landscape. Coming from a long family line of carpenters she always had a special place for material and craftsmanship. That combined with the atmosphere of landscapes and releasing emotions in the viewer is what thrives her. Creating works that stimulate the viewer or make them contemplate.
While studying product design at the Willem de Kooning Academy she explored her fascination for the natural elements around her. Instead of using those materials for designing a functional product, she decided to tell stories with them. Firstly to express her vision on certain social issues. But slowly creating more personal projects, becoming an autonomous visual artist who creates work from an urge to share how she sees and experiences the world around her. She works in a multidisciplinary way not limiting herself to one material or technique, but instead seeking the right medium for the story she wants to tell.
Her work was selected for Best of Graduates 2022 by gallery Ron Mandos, nominated for the Lakeside Collection Award and Van Vlissingen Art Foundation Price, shortlisted by Arts Thread for their Global Design Graduate Show. Her work has been acquired by the Lakeside Collection, the Art Collection of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, as well as private collections spread across Europe.
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Coming up:
Solo exhibition: Sight of Solitude - MOYA (Museum of Young Art) (NL, Oosterhout)
Group show - Galerie Cpunt (NL, Hoofddorp)
CKC Gallery - (SP, Madrid)
Solo shows:
2024
Seeking the Landscapes - MOYA (Museum of Young Art) (NL, Oosterhout)
Duo shows:
2025
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Weisbard - Rotterdam Art Week (NL, Rotterdam)
Group shows:
2025
The New Current - De Kaai, Rotterdam Art Week (NL, Rotterdam)
2024
Onderwijsfestival ArtTechTour - Energiehuis (NL, Dordrecht)
NOUVEL EDEN - Chroniques Biennale (FR, Aix-en-Provence) Supported by Mondriaan Fonds – International Art Presentation Grant and the Dutch Embassy
Intertwined Realities - Forci Art Foundation, Tenuta Di Forci (IT, Lucca)
The New Current - Brutus, Rotterdam Art Week (NL, Rotterdam)
Best of Graduates Legacy - Galerie Ron Mandos, Art Rotterdam (NL, Rotterdam)
2023
THERESI_ART 07 - Art[s] Gallery Simone Jansen (NL, Noordwijk)
Axel Pairon gallery (BE, Knokke)
Object Rotterdam - On the cutting edge of design art, fashion, architecture and crafts. (NL, Rotterdam)
2022
Makers Momenten - Kunstgarage Franx (NL, Zoetermeer)
The Best of Graduates 2022 - Galerie Ron Mandos (NL, Amsterdam)
Graduation Show - Willem de Kooning Academy (NL, Rotterdam)
2021
Virtual exhibition CIRCULAR ATMOSPHERE - Studio Enter X Isola Design District (Digital)
2017
Rabobank de Langstraat - De expositie van jonge kunstenaars (NL, Waalwijk)
Collections:
Lakeside Collection, NL
Kunstcollectie Hoge school Rotterdam, NL
Forci Art Foundation - Art Collection, IT
Artist-in-residence:
2024
Artist Residency at Forci Art Foundation (IT, Lucca)
Grants:
2025
Mondriaan Fonds - Ontwikkeling Voucher
2024
Travel Grant - The John & Marine van Vlissingen Art Foundation
Mondriaan Fonds - Ambachts Voucher
Award/Nominations:
2024
The John & Marine van Vlissingen Art Foundation prize - Nominated
2022
Lakeside Collection Award, Lakeside Collection - Nominated
Best of Graduates 2022, Galerie Ron Mandos - Nominated
Global Design Graduate Show, Arts Thread - Shortlisted
2017
Rabobank de Langstraat - De Expositie van jonge kunstenaars - Won
Talks:
2025
Guest speaker - Art Radio, Rotterdam Art Week Podcast.
2024
Artist Talk ‘The story behind: Composing Oceans’ - Chroniques Biennales (FR, Marseille)
Guest teacher ‘KlooiKollege’ - KITE Education (NL, Rotterdam)
Publications:
2022
Design Heritage Tourism. Between Sense of Time and Sense of Place. Chapter: Lorens, A Hybrid/Ephemeral/in Motion; Lettera Ventidue
De Groene Amsterdammer - editie #35; De jonge garde, Woestijn
2021
Dutch Design Daily - Growing Cabinets