Holly Rowan Hesson
@hollyrowanhesson.bsky.social
Artist responding to the experience of physical space, architecture and the built environment.
Concrete please.
Not sculpture project.
Artist in residence with AA2A at York St John University.
Based Leeds/ York, UK
hollyrowanhesson.co.uk
Concrete please.
Not sculpture project.
Artist in residence with AA2A at York St John University.
Based Leeds/ York, UK
hollyrowanhesson.co.uk
Belated thank you to A-n for my Artist Bursary awarded earlier in the year. I’m learning and experimenting with new skills and using them to dream up new installation ideas. As always I look back to move forward and this is an image from…
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A-n Artist Bursary — Holly Rowan Hesson
Belated thank you to A-n for my Artist Bursary awarded earlier in the year. I’m learning and experimenting with new skills and using them to dream up new installation ideas. As always I look back to m...
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Belated thank you to A-n for my Artist Bursary awarded earlier in the year. I’m learning and experimenting with new skills and using them to dream up new installation ideas. As always I look back to move forward and this is an image from…
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/a-n-art...
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/a-n-art...
Are we still here on Bluesky or no 🤔
June 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Are we still here on Bluesky or no 🤔
Reposted by Holly Rowan Hesson
Now is the moment to invest in the arts and culture.
If you agree, please join the more than 27,000 people who have signed our petition to the Chancellor →
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
If you agree, please join the more than 27,000 people who have signed our petition to the Chancellor →
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Now is the moment to invest in the arts and culture.
If you agree, please join the more than 27,000 people who have signed our petition to the Chancellor →
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
If you agree, please join the more than 27,000 people who have signed our petition to the Chancellor →
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Article from @universityofleeds.bsky.social on my work Bridge made in response to my Creative Labs project with University of Leeds School of Civil Engineering eps.leeds.ac.uk/civil-engine...
Masonry arch bridge inspires new art installation
A masonry arch bridge has become the inspiration for a new art installation.
eps.leeds.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Article from @universityofleeds.bsky.social on my work Bridge made in response to my Creative Labs project with University of Leeds School of Civil Engineering eps.leeds.ac.uk/civil-engine...
Dreamy @artatyork.bsky.social University of York views - new body of work inspired by the campus in progress
March 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Dreamy @artatyork.bsky.social University of York views - new body of work inspired by the campus in progress
Oh hi next morning coffee read on New Towns
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Oh hi next morning coffee read on New Towns
This week’s morning coffee reading - another @themodernist.bsky.social gem
March 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This week’s morning coffee reading - another @themodernist.bsky.social gem
The UNBOUND programme has now come to an end. Many thanks to @beamartsuk.bsky.social, YVAN, @creativewakefield.bsky.social, all the other artists and some great expert speakers for an exciting few months learning lots about working in the public realm www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/unbound...
UNBOUND Dynamic Artists — Holly Rowan Hesson
Excited to have been selected as one of the artist cohort for the UNBOUND Dynamic Artists for Public Spaces Development Programme taking place over the next six months. The programme is funded by W...
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February 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The UNBOUND programme has now come to an end. Many thanks to @beamartsuk.bsky.social, YVAN, @creativewakefield.bsky.social, all the other artists and some great expert speakers for an exciting few months learning lots about working in the public realm www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/unbound...
Reposted by Holly Rowan Hesson
⚠️Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat!
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
⚠️Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat!
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
The final day of RE-VIEW at Hull Artist Research Initiative is this Saturday with lots of activities taking place. RE-VIEW includes Bridge, my installation comprised of three parts www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/work/bridge
January 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The final day of RE-VIEW at Hull Artist Research Initiative is this Saturday with lots of activities taking place. RE-VIEW includes Bridge, my installation comprised of three parts www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/work/bridge
One of my very favourite #notsculpture captures from last year
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of my very favourite #notsculpture captures from last year
More adventures in post war concrete campus university loveliness thank you York @artatyork.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
More adventures in post war concrete campus university loveliness thank you York @artatyork.bsky.social
My installation, Bridge, is at Hull Artist Research Initiative (HARI) space in Hull until 25 Jan. This work connects with my research on critical infrastructure, in particular bridges, undertaken as part of my Leeds Creative Labs project
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/new-ins...
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New Installation at Hull Artist Research Initiative — Holly Rowan Hesson
My new installation Bridge is on view (and weathering nicely in the semi-derelict space this winter!) at Hull Artist Research Initiative (HARI) space in Hull until 25 January 2025. (See flyer below ...
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December 19, 2024 at 2:53 PM
My installation, Bridge, is at Hull Artist Research Initiative (HARI) space in Hull until 25 Jan. This work connects with my research on critical infrastructure, in particular bridges, undertaken as part of my Leeds Creative Labs project
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/new-ins...
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/new-ins...
Thinking about the first time I ever showed any work in public, in a little show in Bradford. This is one of the eight photos in that series - A journey by train…
December 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Thinking about the first time I ever showed any work in public, in a little show in Bradford. This is one of the eight photos in that series - A journey by train…
View from the studio - edging towards the end of the year edition…
December 17, 2024 at 8:13 AM
View from the studio - edging towards the end of the year edition…
Signed…
✊🏼 Find out more about C20's Cooling Towers campaign: c20society.org.uk/cooling-towers
✍🏼 And sign the petition here: chng.it/T6Mc4gW5jk
✍🏼 And sign the petition here: chng.it/T6Mc4gW5jk
December 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Signed…
Studio reading c/o The Modernist…
December 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Studio reading c/o The Modernist…
So the scaffolding obsession still going strong then…
#notsculpture
#notsculpture
December 15, 2024 at 2:44 PM
So the scaffolding obsession still going strong then…
#notsculpture
#notsculpture
Never can resist snapping a new (to me) Leeds Motorway City of the Seventies gem
December 13, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Never can resist snapping a new (to me) Leeds Motorway City of the Seventies gem
Thanks to Lens Lab Project for including my photograph in their Re:ject group show. Great close to the year and link to 2025 when work on my #notsculpture project will be front and centre
Lens Lab Project Re:ject Show — Holly Rowan Hesson
Thanks to Lens Lab Project for including my photograph Yellow Mesh in their Re:ject group show. Great close to the year and link to 2025 when work on my Not Sculpture project will be front and cent...
www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Thanks to Lens Lab Project for including my photograph in their Re:ject group show. Great close to the year and link to 2025 when work on my #notsculpture project will be front and centre
(Me and) Annabel McCourt in a warm Neon Workshops glow at @humberstgallery.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 6:54 AM
(Me and) Annabel McCourt in a warm Neon Workshops glow at @humberstgallery.bsky.social
Looking back to my MA as I start my AA2A university residency and remember how fun learning new practical things is… www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/aa2a-re...
AA2A Artist in Residence at York St John University — Holly Rowan Hesson
Happy to have started my AA2A residency at York St John University where I’ll be learning new darkroom skills and print processes for the first time in order to integrate new elements into my installa...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Looking back to my MA as I start my AA2A university residency and remember how fun learning new practical things is… www.hollyrowanhesson.co.uk/news/aa2a-re...
Fun screenprinting morning at York St John University on my AA2A artist residency
December 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Fun screenprinting morning at York St John University on my AA2A artist residency
Lovely Sheffield art run round - first stop @sitegallery.bsky.social for Jerwood Survey III
December 1, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Lovely Sheffield art run round - first stop @sitegallery.bsky.social for Jerwood Survey III
Bridge - new installation work at Hull Artist Research Network. If you’re in Hull go for the building alone - the diverse work by 25 artists a bonus 😆
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Bridge - new installation work at Hull Artist Research Network. If you’re in Hull go for the building alone - the diverse work by 25 artists a bonus 😆