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(Grizelda Holderness) Biography

About Me
Exhibitions *
Illustration
In 1979 wonderful Andras Kalman had my pictures at his Crane Kalman Gallery, while I survived doing accounting jobs, and I will be grateful to him forever for his encouragement and kindness. Then in 1980 I met Jill George, the beginning of a long friendship, and over the next 10 years showed at her gallery - formerly Thumb Gallery, now the Jill George Gallery - in mixed and solo exhibitions. After the birth of my son in 1991, I concentrated more on illustration, needing a slightly more regular income and the adrenaline of deadlines! I show locally in The Riverside Artists annual exhibitions and during the Stroud Open Studios. Currently working on a series of pictures on Dance, Love and War.

Images from past exhibitions, and non-commissioned work can be seen in the "Pictures" Gallery.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1982: Drawings, Thumb Gallery London

1983: "Earth Bound", Thumb Gallery, London

1985: "Open Secrets", Thumb Gallery, London

1986: "Working Pictures '79-86", AOI Gallery, London

1989: Oxford Art Week, Oxford (with Jane Hillis)

1991: "The Seven Cardinal Virtues", Thumb Gallery, London

2006: Open Studio

2007: Open Studio, Stroud Site07



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1980: Royal Academy Summer Show, London

1981: "London Group in Southwark", South London Gallery
            Cleveland 5th International Drawing Biennale
            Christmas Exhibition, Thumb Gallery, London

1982: "Personal View", Thumb Gallery, London
            Association of Illustrators Annual
            "2B 2H", Thumb Gallery, London

1983: Cleveland 6th International Drawing Biennale
            Association of Illustrators Annual
            Collins Gallery, Glasgow
            "The Music Show", Thumb Gallery, London

1984: "10 Years On", Thumb Gallery, London
            International Contemporary Art Fair, London (Thumb)
            Bath Contemporary Art Fair (Thumb)

1985: International Contemporary Art Fair, London (Thumb)
            Bath Contemporary Art Fair (Thumb)
            Association of Illustrators Annual, London
            European Illustration Annual, London

1986: Bath Contemporary Art Fair, London
            Design & Art Direction Annual, London
            New Scientist 30th Anniversary Exhibition, London

1987: "The Art of the Book", Portico Gallery, Manchester

1992: "The Pleasure of Reading", WH Smith 200th Anniversary,
            London

1995: "Three Zimbabwean Women", Sandro's Gallery, Harare,
            Zimbabwe
            (with Annette Lewis and Lesley Ruda)

2000: Oxford University Press, (touring exhibition)

2005: Association of Illustrators Annual, London
            "The Bestiary", Jill Geaorge Gallery, London

2007: "5 X Severn", The Woolbarn, Frampton-on-Severn
            (with Gillian Keightley, Zebedee Helm, Terry Cripps, Oliver
            Marsden)
            Stroud Site07, Stroud, Gloucestershire

2012: "Harbour 21", Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
            Riverside Artists Annual, Wick Court, Arlingham
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