Holly Halkes (b.1993) is a British artist living and working in London. Halkes studied her first BA in Fashion Design acquiring a love for print design and bold colours. She then went on to study Fine Art at the City & Guilds of London Art School, graduating in 2022 and after presenting her work at several exhibitions with galleries like The Room in London, she has upcoming work showing at London Art Fair and exhibitions in Stuttgart and Milan at the Tube Culture Hall and a solo exhibition at the Albert Contemporary in Odense in 2023.
Holly Halkes’s paintings engage with the values of the carnivalesque circulating around themes of free interaction, breaking down barriers and playing on eccentric behaviours through her own experiences of what it feels like to live in the 21st Century. Halkes is interested in creating an alternate social space characterised by freedom and abundance to explore human behaviours and social interactions that border between real life and fantasy.