Holly Hendry news

Artist Holly Hendry joins Dr. Jane Partner (literature and material culture scholar and artist, Cambridge), Dr. Lucy Barry (philosopher and weaver) and Marta Ajmar (historian of art, craft and design, and museum practitioner, Warwick) for a panel discussion, reflecting on the works and themes of the exhibition Material Worlds.

We are excited to share that Holly Hendry has been included in The Artsy Vanguard 2025, Artsy's annual feature spotlighting the most promising artists working today. ⁠

The Contemporary Austin’s Benefit Art Auction 2024 features Holly Hendry’s work, Metabolism I. All proceeds support the museum's groundbreaking exhibitions and award-winning arts education programs. 

This group exhibition platforms the work of North-East based creatives and self-taught hobbyists alongside established contemporary artists.

Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.

'Slackwater' is Holly Hendry's first public commission in London, and her largest to date. The site-specific work occupies the terrace on the roof of Temple Underground station.

'Lip-sync' is a major new permanent public artwork for Birmingham by Holly Hendry commissioned by Birmingham City University and curated by Eastside Projects.

As part of Yale Center for British Art's series, 'at home', Holly Hendry is in conversation with cultural producer Phillip Edwards Spradley about her interest in and approaches to sculpture within the public realm.

As part of European Capital of Culture Holly Hendry presents 'Sump', an outdoor public sculpture commission in Esch-sur-Alzette.

A year since their inaugural exhibition in a cavernous Grade II listed former swimming baths, 'Pigeon Park' returns to its nesting home amid civic unrest, strikes and political hypocrisy to deliver another exhibition which questions inherited hierarchies and the meaning of material value in times of austerity.

'Subversive Tenderness' is an exploration of ideas of softness in nature and culture. It positions itself as the contemporary alternative to the modernist avant-garde, a tender reimagining of today's reality. 

Holly Hendry joins Daniel S. Palmer (Curator at Public Art Fund, New York) to discuss her current solo exhibition, ’Holly Hendry: Fatty Acids’ at Stephen Friedman Gallery.

‘Testament’ is a large-scale group exhibition that responds to the seismic shifts in UK society triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit. 

A riot of beloved Beano characters are on show alongside similarly rebellious artists at Somerset House this autumn in 'Beano: the Art of Breaking the Rules'.

'Breaking the Mould' is a major touring exhibition which challenges male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse and significant range of ambitious work by women. Included in the exhibition is Holly Hendry's 'Gut Feelings (Stromatolith)', 2016, a geological-style cross section that references undersides, be it subterranean or subcutaneous. 

Presented by The Arts Club and Wedel Art, ‘Disrupting the Canon’ brings together ground-breaking contemporary works that challenge conceptions of ‘high art’. Reclaiming visual languages that have typically been associated with craft, domestic, vernacular, 'ethnic' and ‘feminine’ work, the show features works by Jonathan Baldock, Holly Hendry and Yinka Shonibare CBE amongst others.

'Las Palmas: Apofenia' is part of 'Chain reaction', an ongoing collaboration between Fidelidade Arte and Culturgest, Porto where the exhibition travels in spring 2021. Amongst the works on display are new sculptures by Holly Hendry that were created for 'Busy Bodies', the British artist's solo project for Frieze London 2020.

For her solo exhibition ’The Dump is Full of Images' British artist Holly Hendry has created her first kinetic sculpture 'Slacker', shown alongside other new works at Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park,...

For the 15th Lyon Biennale, Holly Hendry has created a structure made of air-conditioning ductwork – a way of laying bare invisible systems, and the mysteries that haunt Lyon’s subterranean realm. Between...

Holly Hendry's large-scale outdoor artwork ‘Cenotaph’ is situated outside The Tetley gallery and former brewery site in Leeds. Originally commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2018, the sculpture is inspired by the underground architecture...