Email: michael(@)mickholly.ie

Michael Holly is an artist and non-fiction filmmaker, and a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the University of Sussex.

Selected Works

2023

Lily of the Valley. Short film. Collaboration with Mieke Vanmechelen. Produced by Askeaton Contemporary Arts.

Adrian Duncan's Little Republics. Short Film. Produced by Askeaton Contemporary Arts.

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. Galway Film Fleadh 2023, Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival 2023Feature 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

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