Dan Hollings: ‘Big Boys Don’t Cry’

Online exhibition from That Art Gallery

Artist Dan Hollings was chosen by Saatchi Art as one of 34 artists from Europe and America to invest in – less than a month after graduating from Falmouth University. As well as this he’s been shortlisted for the 2018 MIDAS award. Dan Hollings’ talent and passion for becoming a renowned artist is obvious even if it’s still the early stages of what looks to be a promising career.
Dan has gone on to be a part of solo and group exhibitions in Falmouth, Redruth and London.

‘In my current practise the works are heavily formed around the matter of identity, to oneself or a passer-by from the ‘everyday life’. I get distracted, picking up on small details, clothing, expressions, stature, emotions, they excite me. Identity comes through the actions in scenarios that may be normal to oneself, but to an onlooker these may be peculiar. Fluttered within the works there are discreet motifs taken from the surroundings, overheard conversations, while using the paint as a vessel for personal dialect’.

See his current show Big Boy’s Don’t Cry at That Art Gallery online here.