about

Holly Mingo (1998) is a British self taught Abstract Expressionist Artist and Designer who creates complex and intricate abstractions that reflect the inner workings of her mind. Her works are created intuitively, allowing a free-flow process to meditatively guide her works with no plan or judgement. 

 

Mingo’s works are a personal expression of her experience, and through this form a philosophical framework for her practice and life. She uses both her process and outcome to act as allegorical tapestries that narrate intrapersonal experiences. 

 

Mingo personally sees her works as mindscapes - scenes of the inner mind, but also rejects the notion that art can be limited to one totality. She sees abstraction as a powerful language of emotion that can be interpreted universally. 

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Over the past seven years, Holly has worked on a variety of projects that have allowed her to expand the scope of her practice. She has created murals for various spaces including festival sites, amazement theme parks, and music studios. Holly has also collaborated with various creatives creating clothing shown at New York fashion week 2024 and concepts store designs for brand such as nothing. Holly has also ventured into the TV and film world, developing her existing interior design skills from university and exploring world building and design from high end production levels. 

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Holly's plans for the future include honing in on the theoretical elements of her practice and creating more intentional and developed works that combine her love for art, design and world building. 

 

“My mind is as busy and energetic as my artworks, they are a direct correlation of such. I see my works as projections of the mind on canvas. Emotion feeds my work, constructed by experience, perspective, and feeling. The things that give me the most feeling in life, architecture, music, history are what informs my work, what inspires it. 

 

Creating art is all I think about, I see it as a personal exploration of the mind, finding out what can be expressed next from the vast entanglement of thoughts that make up my mind.

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Music is my main and favourite way of accessing this flow state and emotion when creating, as a fairly emotive person who's been through a lot, music is the perfect bridge in allowing me to create freely and process my thoughts where there's no time to judge, but just allow them to happen, like my art, like living and breathing.“