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Josh Hollingshead CV

2020- Now Hollingshead Studio Gallery is open at 25 Commercial Road, Swanage, Dorset, UK

2024 Solo exhibition ‘Hierarchy and Other Stories’ at the Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, Durlston Country Park, Dorset, UK

2024 Group exhibition at Weston, Rufus Knight Webb’s Lutyens designed home for Dorset Art Weeks, Lulworth, Dorset, UK

2024 PAINTINGS OF MADAGASCAR Solo exhibition at the Mowlem Theatre, Swanage, Dorset, UK

2024 Discussion in Mowlem Theatre community room about the exhibition PAINTINGS OF MADAGASCAR

2022 Painting exhibited with the South West Academy, Sidmouth, Devon, UK

2021- 2022 Solo exhibition of paintings and prints at the Scott Arms, Kingston, Dorset, UK

2022 4 paintings included in the Flux New Year Virtual Exhibition

2021 Articles about Josh Hollingshead in 2 magazines: The Artist’s Lounge and Woven Tale Press

2021 Josh Hollingshead was represented by and had 3 paintings exhibited at King House Gallery in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

2020 Two paintings exhibited at the Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park, Dorset, UK

2020 The painting Ancestors won the Award for the Most Uplifting and Inspiring Artwork in the Huunuu Art and Death exhibition

2020 3 paintings in the online Huunuu Art and Death exhibition

Shortlisted and interviewed for Jacksons Art Prize 2019

2019 3 more paintings sold to Primavera Gallery, Cambridge, UK

2018- 2019 Paintings in Dorsets Crafty Barn, Milton Abbas, Dorset, UK

Open Studio for Purbeck Arts Week- PAW in Swanage, May -  June 2018 Dorset

Paintings in Dorset's Crafty Barn, Milton Abbas for Dorset Arts Week May- June 2018 Dorset, UK

 2017- 2018 Panoramic paintings in Dorset's Crafty Barn, Milton Abbas, Dorset, UK

2017 Paintings sold to and shown with Primavera Gallery, Cambridge, UK

2017- 2020 Open studio/ gallery in Daisy Mays Arcade, Swanage, Dorset, UK

 2017  PAW show of drawings, pastels, monotypes, Java, Swanage, Dorset, UK

2016-17  Josh Hollingshead Studio/Gallery, Jaden Centre, Swanage, Dorset, UK

2015   CURRENT AFFAIRS,  Krilova Stelfox Gallery at 5th Base, London UK

2015  CHRONICLES, Krilova Stelfox Gallery at 5th Base, London UK

2014  Curwen Prize for Figurative Painting, Shortlist Exhibition, Curwen Gallery, London UK

Wells Art Contemporary 2014, Wells Museum, Somerset UK

2013  NordArt 2013, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf Germany

REVISITED,   L’Artishe Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

Wells Art Contemporary 2013, Wells Museum, Somerset UK

Neo Art Prize 2013 exhibition, Neo Gallery 22, Bolton UK

PURBECK JOURNAL, L’Artishe Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

Sansom Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

2012  University of Chichester Award, Chichester, West Sussex UK

NOA Prize-winners exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex UK

NOA 2012, Princes Foundation for the Arts, London UK

NOA 2012, Minerva Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex UK

JOSH HOLLINGSHEAD, L’Artishe Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

RWA Annual Exhibition, Royal Western Academy, Bristol UK

2009  PAINTINGS & PRINTS, Sansom Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

2007  DRYPOINT ENGRAVINGS, Quarr Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

2006  POOLE PRINTMAKERS, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset UK                

2005  SENSE, Lighthouse Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset UK

Royal Western Academy Autumn Exhibition, Bristol UK

POOLE PRINTMAKERS, Salisbury Exhibition, Dorset UK

PAINTING, Royal Western Academy Exhibition, Bristol UK

2004  Quarr Gallery, Swanage, Dorset UK

The Red Carpet and The Gold Scales on show in ‘Hierarchy and Other Stories, Josh Hollingshead’s solo exhibition in the Fine Foundation Gallery at Durlston Castle. July 2024

Hierarchy on show in Weston, Rufus Knight Webb’s home in Lulworth, for Dorset Art Weeks 2024

Painting Narrative a discussion between Tim Edgar and Josh Hollingshead about Josh’s exhibition in Swanage Mowlem, Paintings of Madagascar. March 2024

Poachers in Paintings of Madagascar, Josh’s solo exhibition in Swanage Mowlem, February 2024

Ancestors won the Award For The Most Uplifting and Inspiring Artwork in the Huunuu Art and Death exhibition.

Manakara was shortlisted for the Jacksons Open Painting Prize 2019

JOSH HOLLINGSHEAD

'CHRONICLES'

2ND- 15TH APRIL 2015

Solo show in London with Krilova Stelfox Gallery.

WELLS ART CONTEMPORARY 2014

Man Made Geysers was exhibited at Wells and Mendip Museum as part of Wells Art Contemporary 2014.

Imaginary Gallery was exhibited at the Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia in October 2014 after it was shortlisted for the Curwen Prize for Figurative Painting.

Man Made Geysers, was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014. 

Wells Art Contemporary 2013, Wells Museum, Somerset, 11/10/2013- 19/10/2013

2 of my landscape panoramas were exhibited with works by 80 other artists in Wells Museum. This was the second year of WAC as an annual, open submission exhibition, which coincides with the Wells literary festival.

6 of my paintings were included in NordArt 2013, in the Kunstwerk Carlshutte, a vast gallery converted from a former foundry building, with a large sculpture park. The town of Budelsdorf, north of Hamburg is always the setting for this international exhibition. It is the largest annual exhibition in northern Europe, curated each year by Wolfgang Gramm, a painter and sculptor who, with Hans Julius Ahlmann, founded NordArt in 1999. 

Neo Art Prize 2013, Bolton, 13/06/2013 - 28/07/2013 

The prize exhibition takes place at neo:gallery22, The Market Place, Bolton. It is a large gallery beside a complex of studios for members of the association neo:artists, and is a focus for art in the North West of England. My painting, Man Made Geysers, was on display.

Solo Exhibition, L'Artishe Gallery, 'Revisited'  02/02/2013 - 23/02/2013

RWA Autumn Show, 19/10/2012 - 30/12/2012

This was the 160th RWA Autumn Exhibition. Usually it is very eclectic, I had 1 painting on show, 'Copse and Robbers'.

National Open Art Competition 2012, 13/10/2012 - 18/11/2012

The exhibition took place in the Princes Foundation for the Arts in London, Pallant House Gallery and the Minerva Gallery, Chichester. I won the University of Chichester Award.

L'Artishe Gallery Solo Exhibition, 17/09/2012 - 02/10/2012