Ġulja Holland (b. 1990, Malta) is a figurative painter based between Malta and London. She graduated with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 2021 and obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2015. Self-identity, environmental destruction and existentialism are recurring themes in her work. Her most recent series explores apocalyptic narratives through a reversal of scale of animals and humans to convey the ever-increasing instability of hierarchical order brought about by the arrival of the Anthropocene.

 

Her work has been featured in the Economic Observer Review, Times of Malta and the Malta Independent.

 

Her solo exhibitions include:

“A New Gothic”, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta (2023); “When Your Voice Shakes”, Studio 87, Valletta (2021).

 

Her selected group exhibitions include:

“Possible Worlds”, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta (2023); “WOP5”, Blue Shop Cottage, London (2023); “MARA”, Bureau Iniala x Marie Gallery 5, Valletta (2023); “Living Residue”, Omnu Creatie Houses, Lisbon (2022); “London Grads Now. 21”, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021-2022).