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Holly Carr
visual artist

Holly has gained national acclaim for her unique style of silk painting. She has participated in numerous group and solo shows, and continues to exhibit nationally. Holly has designed for theatre productions and large-scale public installations. In 2019, Holly won a Merritt Award for outstanding set design for Half Cracked, a Neptune/Eastern Front collaboration. Her most ambitious installation to date is a larger-than-life environment created out of painted silk, Light in the Forest, for Acadia University Art Gallery, which has been redesigned as a multimedia Theatre production, an app in development, and a virtual world that is being piloted at Acadia University. The Mental Wellness project also includes her recently released Light in the Forest children’s book, which was included in the list of top Children’s books of 2021 by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.

In 2003, Holly branched out into performance art, where she paints large artworks live on stage. She has worked with numerous musicians and performers, including a cross Canada tour with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café, as well as performances with world-renowned violinist Min Lee in Singapore and the National Art Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Holly has also had successful performances with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and her own show with Symphony Nova Scotia, where she painted an 8 x 32-foot painting live with the orchestra, and most recently the Toledo Symphony in Ohio.

Holly graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a BFA and B.A.Ed. Holly’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections. To see more of Hollys work, visit hollycarr.com.

 

Holly Carr
visual artist

Holly has gained national acclaim for her unique style of silk painting. She has participated in numerous group and solo shows, and continues to exhibit nationally. Holly has designed for theatre productions and large-scale public installations. In 2019, Holly won a Merritt Award for outstanding set design for Half Cracked, a Neptune/Eastern Front collaboration. Her most ambitious installation to date is a larger-than-life environment created out of painted silk, Light in the Forest, for Acadia University Art Gallery, which has been redesigned as a multimedia Theatre production, an app in development, and a virtual world that is being piloted at Acadia University. The Mental Wellness project also includes her recently released Light in the Forest children’s book, which was included in the list of top Children’s books of 2021 by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.

In 2003, Holly branched out into performance art, where she paints large artworks live on stage. She has worked with numerous musicians and performers, including a cross Canada tour with Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Café, as well as performances with world-renowned violinist Min Lee in Singapore and the National Art Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Holly has also had successful performances with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and her own show with Symphony Nova Scotia, where she painted an 8 x 32-foot painting live with the orchestra, and most recently the Toledo Symphony in Ohio.

Holly graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a BFA and B.A.Ed. Holly’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections. To see more of Hollys work, visit hollycarr.com.