Holly Stevenson

The Debate, a working drawing for Frieze Sculpture 2023

Year 2023
Medium Pen, watercolour and gouache on The Langton 300gsm paper
Dimensions 21 x 29.7 cm

About the work

I always make drawings when I am trying to figure out a sculpture, if I can make the installation happen on paper then I know it can come alive in clay. This drawing was made to explain my idea to Sid Motion and Fatoş Üstek, the idea being two ducks looking at an egg which was halved or whole depending on where you were standing. The drawing became The debate a large ceramic installation shown in The Regent’s Park for Frieze Sculpture 2024.

Date and country of birth

1975, GB

Career Highlights

Suppose You Are Not, Arter, Istanbul, TR (2024)

Frieze Sculpture, London, UK (2023)

Body Poetics, GIANT, Bournemouth, UK (2023)

Decentering in Ceramics, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Rome, IT (2023)

ANOTHER MOTHER, The CoLAB, The Artist’s Garden, London, UK (2022)

Shoppers, Shoes & Sacks AWITA x J W ANDERSON, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK (2022)

Body en Thrall, GIRL POWER and Marcelle Joseph Projects, Rugby Museum, UK (2022)

BORN FROM EARTH, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2022)

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Holly Stevenson, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK (2021)

CERAMICS: THE CENTRAL CORE, Part II, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2021)