Laurel Holmes, Sentient XIV

LAUREL HOLMES B. 1964 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Laurel Holmes (b. 1964) is a Cape Townbased artist exploring themes of fragility and the natural world, drawing inspiration from her coastal surroundings. After leaving the corporate world in 2012, she relocated from Johannesburg to Cape Town in 2016 and studied under renowned South African artists. Although working also in oils, wax encaustic, and mixed media, printmkaing holds a particular allure for her, allowing her to create more abstractly. She earned a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town in 2021 and has since exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami in 2022. Her work is held in private and institutional collections, including Spier Arts Trust and the University of Cape Town, and extends into commercial ventures, with a GIF owned by the Smithsonian and the V&A Museum