Suzanne Holtom is an artist based in London. She studied at Cardiff, The Slade School of Fine Art and Turps Art School. Holtom's practice is in painting, she was included in The Jerwood Painting prize in 2003, Birth Rites, a residency and touring exhibition 2008 and has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibitions in London and the UK. Suzanne is a member of Contemporary British Painting, her most recent solo exhibition was Fortune and Folly, Hampstead and group exhibitions; X at Newcastle Contemorary Art, Swamp Legends, Vitalistic Fantasies, Blink and Turps Painting show in 2021.
Education
2018 Turps Offsite Painting Programme
1994 Post-graduate Fine Art - Painting, The Slade School of Art, London
1988 BA (Hons) Fine Art - Painting, Cardiff College of Art, Cardiff, Wales
Exhibitions
2023 X Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art
2023 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 London
2022 Swamp Legends, Terrace Gallery
2022 A Generous Space 2, Artist Support Pledge, The New Art Gallery Walsall
2022 Paradoxes, Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2022 Blink 'Room Share 2' Safehouse One, Peckham, London
2022 Drawings from Experiences, Eye to Pencil, London
2022 This Years Model, Studio 1.1, London
2021 Turps Painting, Thames Side Studios, London
2020 Vitalistic Fantasies: Cello Factory, London
2020 Yes/No Online exhibition, Contemporary British Painting
2019 Turps Painting Exhibition, Turps Gallery, London
2019 Fortune and Folly, Fine Art Gallery, Hampstead, London
2017 'the sorriest things' Fine Arts Gallery, Hampstead, London
2017 Summer Salon Lubomirov Angus-Hughes, London
2017 'Faktura' Renegade Inc Studios, London SW6
2017 'Storyboard' Lubomirov Angus-Hughes, London
2017 'hardware' Centre Studios, London NW3
2017 This Years' Model, Studio 1.1 London
Selected shows from 2016
2016 Painting 123, Correspond Edinburgh, IR11 Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh
2016 Bad Art, Pearl and Bone Space, Tottenham, London
2016 Correspond, Rye Creative Centre
2016 Correspond, Artworks, Halifax
2015 Off Line On Line, Studio 1.1, London
2014 Correspond, Turps Art School, London
2014 Summer Saloon,Lion & Lamb Gallery, London
2014 Summer Saloon, , Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary, Suffolk
2013 Cloud Chambers, Mayors Parlour Gallery, Bow
2009 Collection on loan, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London
2008 Birth Rites, Manchester Museum, Manchester
2008 Birth Rites, Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow
2003 Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Space, London
Residencies
2009 Peterhouse Residency, Peterhouse Specialist School for Autism, Southport
2007 Birth Rites Collaboration, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
2003 Interiors, St John of Jerusalem Church, Hackney, London
Awards
2008 Peterhouse Residency, Millenium Unltd Award, London
2008 Arts Council England, Grants for Individual Artists Award,
2003 Jerwood Painting Prize 2003, Jerwood Gallery, London
2003 Arts Council England, Grants for Individual Artists Award,
2001 Woo Charitable Foundation Bursary, Woo Foundation, London
Publications and Press
2016 Slipping Into A Glimpse, Turps Magazine Issue #16
2015 Off Line On Line Catalogue, text by Jessica Lack
2014 Turps Banana Magazine, Issue 14, July 2014
2014 Correspond Exhibition Catalogue
2008 Guardian, The Art of Creation
2008 Scotsman Delivering the Fine Art of Birth
2008 Debate Collaboration H Knowles, Artist Newsletter Magazine,
2003 Jerwood Painting Prize 2003 Catalogue, Judith Bumpus
www. suzanneholtom.com