Biography and facts

A factual summary of Jamie Holman’s work, roles, exhibitions and collections. For the studio’s own account of the work, see the About page.

Practice

Jamie Holman is a British artist based in Blackburn, Lancashire. He works in painted silk banners, tapestry, ceramic, stained glass, print and film, often made alongside heritage craftspeople and industrial fabricators. His work recovers the culture working people built for themselves: hand-loom poets and blacksmith painters, union marches and football terraces, and the acid house generation who turned empty cotton mills into dancefloors.

Roles

Associate artist for The British Textile Biennial. Board member of The National Festival of Making.

Selected works

The Lancashire Tapestry (2022), an 18-metre tapestry marking the Platinum Jubilee, shown at Blackburn Cathedral from June 2022 to January 2023. Across Arcadia (2026), one of three murals commissioned for Accrington town centre by Hyndburn Borough Council and Super Slow Way. HOWL (2021), a performance work in which 150 people howled in memory of the last wolf in England. Flashback, an oral-history archive of the Blackburn acid house parties of 1988 to 1991.

Collections

Work is held by the Government Art Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, the Arts Council Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, The British Library, The Bodleian, Turton Tower, Soho House, The NCA Lahore and AOST Islamabad.

Selected exhibitions

Contagious Acts at The Whitaker. The Heart is Full at The Village Gallery, Leeds. Art of the Terraces at the Walker Art Gallery. John Moores Painting Prize. British Textile Biennial. Rough Music. Across Arcadia, Accrington.

Press

Jamie Holman’s work has been covered by The Guardian, BBC News, ITV News Granada, The Quietus, The Face, Big Issue North and The Conversation. A full list is on the Media and PR page.

Enquiries

Sales, editions and commissions: jamieholmanartandmusic@gmail.com