Email: michael(@)mickholly.ie
Phone: +353 23 886 9012
Michael Holly is an artist and non-fiction filmmaker, and a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the University of Sussex.
Education
2018-2022 PhD Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
2012-2014 MA Visual Arts Practice. Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
2002-2004 Commercial Photography. Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Selected Works
2022
The Parish. Solo exhibition: Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre. 2 April to 12 May 2022
The Parish. Solo exhibition: South Tipperary Arts Centre: May - June 2022
Hungry Hill. Feature documentary. Collaboration with Mieke Vanmechelen (screening schedule forthcoming, 2023)Feature documentary about endangered farming practices on Beara Peninsula, Ire.
2021
Like a Mouse. (with Mieke Vanmechelen) Supported by Kerry County Council Artist Bursary 2021. Chicago Underground Film Festival 2021
Seanie Barron: Only in Askeaton. Produced by Askeaton Contemporary Arts. Winner: Audience Award, Cork International Film Festival 2021
Lucy Lippard & Jo Melvin: Imagine Being Here Now Produced by Askeaton Contemporary Arts: https://askeatonarts.com/media/lippard-melvin
2020
Smoke Rises Among Exotic Trees Tulca Festival of Visual Arts 2020:The Law is a White Dog https://www.tulca.ie/tulca-2020
A Weary Man's Space Travel. Mink.run Moving Magazine. https://mink.run/
Men Who Eat Ringforts. Published by Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland
2019
Cairn G. ETNOFF Festival of Ethnographic Film. Skopje, Macedonia
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
2018
There Can Be No Freedom Outside Of Activity, large- format photograph, Skibbereen Arts Festival 2018, Ireland
M7, Video and Audio Installation, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
2017
Culture Is The Inversion Of Reality, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Art Manoeuvres , Series of performative curatorial projects in partnership with artist Sheelagh Broderick. West Cork, Ireland
2016
Strategy Against Signposts, Exhibition, Performative Lecture and Walking Tour, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
2015
Those Who Swim (in) The Forest, Collaboration with Ross Cochrane and Alan James Burns Y Galerii, Tartu, Estonia
The Kingcat of Keshcorran, Documentary Video Installation. Collaboration with Liam Byrne and Sean Lynch, Roscommon Arts Centre, Ireland
Our Lady of Oxmanstown, Video and Sound Installation. St. Marys Abbey, Dublin, Ireland
Developing Creative Practice Across Borders, County Hall, Cavan, Ireland
2014
The Remembering Game, Video, Sound and Object Installation. Siamsa Tíre, Tralee Co. Kerry, Ireland
Everything Created In Paris, performative lecture, Moks, Mooste, Estonia
Drone Comet, performative reading, Foaming-At-The-Mouth, Dublin, Ireland
Rocks of Bawn, performance, with Amanda Ralph, Modern Art Oxford
2013
Liturgical Orientation, Abhainn Rí Festival, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Liars Poker, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Excursions And Visits To Places That Have No Reason To Exist, St. Johns Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2012
The Sand Beneath Our Feet, Video and sculptural installation, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland
Project 30: Emerging Views Of Ireland, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2011
Winter Seen, Edmonton International Film Festival, Garneau Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2010
Seeing Hysteria, A Case, A Study, Womens Studies Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada