about
As a continuation of her love for drawing and painting as a child, Holly Mingo holds an authentic, unique art style that is centred on expression, identity, and freedom. To her, creativity is a profound exploration of life, a personal philosophy, and a universal language via abstraction. Mingo’s intuitive and energetic works reflect the inner workings and complexities of the mind and experience.
Holly has undertaken a variety of professional commissions including artwork that was featured in Central Cee’s ‘One Up’ music video following her mural for Rebel Studios in 2020. Since, Mingo has transferred her unique work into a myriad of spaces, from clothing shown at New York Fashion Week 2024, to a mural for Boomtown Fair Festival. Mingo’s advance into the commercial realm has shown conscientious exploration and development of her practice, from an independent and personal perspective - building upon her art through experience and learning.
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Mingo’s artworks are an exploration of introspection, allowing her mind to create with no thought, plan or judgement. Listening to music provides a rhythmic aid that inspires emotion and guides her intuitive process which is something she has incorporated into a live drawing concept that she continues to showcase to live audiences. Most recently at Mayfest at The Bristol Old Vic.
Additionally, Mingo experiences sound-to-colour and form synaesthesia that informs her pieces, addressing a colour to sound and drawing reactively to the different sounds and elements of a piece of music. Ultimately creating visualisations of music through innovative and traditional techniques and intuitive processing.
Since her studies of Interior Design at University of West England, architecture and design have been a great influence and inspiration of Mingo’s work, relating to her perception of her works being ‘mind-scapes’ with representational architectural forms that contribute elements of these abstract environments and distinctive world building.
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Alongside Mingo's art practice, she has a keen interest in production art and design, particularly within TV & film. She hopes to gain further experience within an art department of various production types, blending her passion for both fine art and design. ​​
“My art is my identity in its purest form.
It reflects the busy and energetic mind in a way that can only be processed by the individual due to the lack of objectivity.
I feel it offers an insight to the limitless possibility of the mind and creation. “