JACQUELINE HOLT draws upon personal experience as a lens through which to examine the cultural and political landscape. her practice spans video, sculpture, print, and photography, with a focus on the realisation of ideas rather than adherence to a specific medium.
ARTIST BIO
Jacqueline Holt relocated from London to Belfast, where she completed an MFA at the Belfast School of Art in 2012. In 2015, she co-founded AMINI, an artist-led initiative dedicated to promoting and fostering critical dialogue around artists' moving image in Northern Ireland.
She received a Jerwood Bursary in 2020 and participated in the Freelands Artist Programme during 2022/23. Her debut solo exhibition, This Moment of Being, was held at PS2, Belfast, in 2020, marking the culmination of her ACES Award in collaboration with LUX (London).
Recent exhibitions include Betwixt at Mimosa House, London (2024), and mother tongue at the MAC, Belfast (2024).
Above: International Style, Jacqueline Holt, 2024, Silk twill, Scarf, 65cm x 65cm
Top left: Belfast Workshop, Jacqueline Holt, 2023. Video, courtesy the artist.
She follows from the front, Jacqueline Holt, 2024, Damask, silk, wood, Wall hanging, Betwixt at Mimosa House, London 2024.
I love you, I love you, I love you..., Jacqueline Holt, 2024, Silk hanging, mother tongue, MAC Belfast. Photo: Simon Mills, courtesy of the MAC
Holt’s creative process is perhaps best encapsulated by Aldous Huxley’s description of art, as articulated in the preface to his Collected Essays (1960):
"Freely, effortlessly, thought and feeling move in these... works of art... between the essay’s three poles – from personal to universal, from the abstract back to the concrete, from the objective datum to the inner experience."
