Holly McLean - Artist and Costume Designer.
Based London, U.K.
Education
2015-2017 (Merit) MFA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art.
2009-2012 (2:1) BA Fine Art (Media), Bath School of Art and Design.
2008-2009 (Distinction) Fine Art Foundation, Byam Shaw School of Art.
Solo exhibitions
2020 – “If you get the knees right the rest should follow” Collective, Edinburgh.
Group exhibitions
2021- 22 - Video installation, Kuntsraum, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
2020 - Visions in the Nunnery, P1: Hetain Patel, Bow Arts, London, UK.
2018/19 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London and Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool.
2017 - Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow.
2016 - MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2015 - 16th International Media Art Biennale “WRO Test Exposure”, Wroclaw, Poland. “Test space open”, Spike Island, Bristol.
2014 - Ride the Judd, Hardy Tree Gallery, London.
Festivals & Screenings
Upcoming – Queer families community film event, Glasgow.
2024 – Sands Films Club screening with W.R. Saunders, London, UK.
2024 – KH_KinoMix.mov, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.
2021 - 14th Glasgow film festival, UK.
2020 - YOU DON'T OWN ME: Tales of Resistance, Sheffield, UK. 18th London Short Film Festival, UK. 37th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, DE. Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK. Scottish Queer International Film Festival, UK. 13th Glasgow Short Film Festival. 15.1 Experiments in Cinema, New Mexico, USA.
2018 - The World of Film International Festival, Glasgow. Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin, DE.
2017 - 29th Festival Premier Plans, Angers, France.
2016 - Mount Florida Screenings 04, Mount Florida Studios, Glasgow.
2015 - New Year/ New Noise 2, Howling Owl, Arnolfini, Bristol. FILM OPEN, (film selected for a touring show reel of Artist Moving Image), Spike Island, Bristol - Transmission, Glasgow - ICA, London - Eastside projects, Birmingham - Castlefield Gallery, Manchester - S1 Art space, Sheffield.
Long Chair productions
A production company founded in January 2019 with William Aikman and Rhona Mühlebach.
“Ditch me” an exhibition film, commissioned by CCA Glasgow. Dir: Rhona Mühlebach
“Excitement is not part of my feeling repertoire” an exhibition film, commissioned by Kunstraum, Kreuzlingen. Dir: Rhona Mühlebach.
“If you get the knees right the rest will follow” experimental short, commissioned by Collective, Edinburgh. Dir: Holly McLean.
“Ode to Chainsaw” a trailer commissioned by Winterthur Film Festival. Dir: Rhona Mühlebach.
“Saturnrania” an experimental short, 2019, commissioned by Lux and BBC Scotland. Dir: Holly McLean.
“Loch Long” an experimental short, 2019. Dir: Rhona Mühlebach. Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow.
Costume
2023 – 25 - Assistant to Christine Edzard at Sands Films, London.
2023 - Costume Designer, DITCH ME, Dir: Rhona Mühlebach.
2022-23 - Assistant costume designer, OUTLANDER season 7, Costume Designer Trisha Biggar.
Awards / Residencies
Recipient of a grant from the Hope Scott Trust 2020
Selected as part of Satellites programme, Collective Edinburgh, 2020.
BBC Scotland & Lux Scotland - Now & Next commission (Round 2), 2019.
The World of Film International Festival Glasgow 2018. The Female Perspective: Shorts Competition - Semi Finalist.
Selected as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018.
Nida Art Colony residency, Lithuania 2015.
Riberola “Voluntary” Residency, Xerta, Baix Ebre, Tarragona, Spain, 2013