Graham Holland Biography

British Lens based artist Graham Holland creates evocative photo- colleges of the urban world.

Graham studied Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire. He has been included in over fifty exhibitions his work can be found in private collections in the UK, America and the Netherlands.

Clients include Transport for London, The London Studios(LWT), Carling, JD Wetherspoon, Pizza Express at Gatwick Airport, Bruntwoods (Official Partner Commonwealth Games 2002), BBC, Shaftesbury plc, National Health Service and Pictons.

Graham?s work has also been extensively featured in the TV programme Home on ITV and culture magazine Blueprint. Other media attention includes Broadcast, Property Week and A-N magazine.

Exhibitions:

2005: - Glasgow Art Fair. - The London Art Fair. - Art Palm Beach

2004: - Life in the City, London . - I Love New York, London . - Glasgow Art Fair. - London Calling, London. - Pop, Reading. - AAF, London . - Contemporary Camera, Cambridge. - Art On Paper, London. - StArt, London. - Lara Palmer, London. - Interiors, London. - London Art Fair .

2003: - Manchester Art Show. - Art Ireland, Dublin. - Urban Interiors, London. - AAF New York. - Holland and Byrne Montages, London. - Norwich Fringe Festival inconjunction with Habitat. - Location Location Location, Cambridge. - Holland and Sexty at Kingly Court, Carnaby, London. - Holland and Sexty at the Woolff Gallery, London. - Life In The City, London. - Fresh Art, London. - AAF Bristol. - Glasgow Art Fair April 2003. - Art2003, London.

2002: - AAF New York . - Xposure, London. - Metropolis, London. - Windows 9: Shopping, Manchester, in conjunction with TATE Liverpool. - The I.D. Project, Luton. - Citylife, Manchester. - Fresh Art, London. - Folly, Lancaster.

2001. - 12 x 12, Luton. - Permenant exhibition, Luton. - Reconstructed Places 2, Luton. - Turf, Luton. - Reconstructed Places, Luton. - Graduate Exhibition, Reading.

2000: - Artshed, Hampshire. - Windows 3, Manchester. - Rotator, Preston.

Commissions: - Photographic image, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, 2004. - Photographic image, Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust, 2004. - Two photographic images, Greenhill McCarron for The London Studios, 2004. - Photographic image on Liverpool, Carling, 2003. - Photographic image on Carnaby, London, Shaftesbury plc, 2003. - Photographic image / lightbox on Hull, Carling, October 2003. - Photographic image on Manchester, Bruntwood (2002 Commonwealth Games), 2003. - Photographic image on Luton, Town Centre Management Partnership, 2002. - 5.7m photographic image on Stone, Staffordshire, Harrison Ince for JD Wetherspoon, 2002. - Photographic image on Luton, Pictons Solicitors, 2002. - Five photographic images on Rome, Pizza Express / Gatwick Airport, 2001. - Digital Installation / High Rise Projection, Luton Borough Council, 2001. - Two photographic banners on Luton, Luton Borough Council, March 2001. - Five photographic images on contemporary village life, South Beds District Council, 2001.

Comments:

"The star of the show is undoubtedly Graham Holland's digitally manipulated photomontages. In his world, the city isn't dark and brooding but light, buzzing and congested. He manages to capture both the optimism and the frustration of living in a metropolis where dreams can either be realised or crushed in an instant. He's an artist to watch for the future"

Grant Gibson ? Editor, Blueprint , Aug 2003