Holly is a socially-engaged artist from Birmingham who has worked on several community heritage projects within the Midlands, predominately as a filmmaker but also a photographer and printmaker.

 

She undertook a BA (hons) in Contemporary Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. She conducted her own oral history project within the village of Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, getting to know the residents and recording their stories. She also worked alongside Nottingham-based historian Helen Bates on a project about the Hyson Green Flats and found that residents there had felt similar emotions to the people of Happisburgh in the crumbling of their communities, as their homes were put at risk.

 

Over the last couple of years she has been working with Friction Arts, in Digbeth, on their ongoing community project Echoes and also running a free Art Club for 8-16 year olds from around Birmingham.

 

Holly’s passion is working with others, whether it is communities, other artists, historians or children, and working together to create an artistic representation of their stories.

 

Most recently, she has been working with local poet Bob Cooper to create a film to compliment his poems about living in Birmingham, which will be exhibited this summer.