Jasleen Kaur, Boomerang
Hollybush Issue 21 is published on the occasion of Boomerang, Jasleen Kaur’s first solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, featuring a new body of work which considers how histories and narratives are managed and manufactured, socialised and maintained. Kaur’s work emanates from a position of how events happening elsewhere reverberate both on a macro level, in public societal structures, and on a micro level, within the intimacy of our domestic lives and personal relationships.The Issue features a newly commissioned text by Amanprit Sandhu, curator, writer and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts, UK.
Hollybush Issue is a contextualising device that provides information on artists’ practices through essays, conversations and images. Issues are printed periodically and linked to specific events such as exhibitions, performances or presentations.
Published by Hollybush Gardens, London, 2025
36 pages, softcover
250mm x 176mm
Jasleen Kaur
Selected group exhibitions include The Three Legged Cat, 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Maybe we could both belong, Den Frie, Copenhagen; PUSH THE LIMITS 2, Merz Foundation, Turin; Who Wants Flowers When They Are Dead?, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead; Lives Less Ordinary, Two Temple Place, London (all 2025); Imagining Otherwise, Primary, Nottingham; CLASSifications, Aspex, Portsmouth; Reluctant Gravities, Hollybush Gardens, London (2024); Not new, otherwise, Build Hollywood, Glasgow (2023); A Tall Order!, Touchstones, Rochdale (2023); My Body is a temple of Gloom, Wellcome Collection, London (2021); Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2019); The Driver’s Seat, Cubitt Gallery, London (2018); This is Water, MIMA, Middlesbrough (2018); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2017). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-De-Leone.
Her work is held in public collections including Arts Council Collection, UK; Crafts Council Collection, London, UK; Fenix Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Government Arts Collection, UK; The University of Warwick Art Collection, UK; Touchstones Rochdale, UK and National Galleries of Scotland, UK.
Amanprit Sandhu
Amanprit Sandhu is a curator, writer and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts, UK. Her current research centres on ‘material vernaculars’, a term she has coined to describe the culturally embedded everyday language of materials. Drawing on and extending debates within new materialism, she uses this lens to consider how materials possess their own forms of agency— holding, transmitting and reshaping cultural knowledge.
Recent curatorial projects include Background Music (2024), the first UK solo exhibition of Diné (Navajo) composer, performer and artist Raven Chacon, centering on his graphic scores presented at Chelsea Space, London; and the 2021 co-curated Borås Art Biennial, Deep Listening for Longing, in Borås, Sweden.
In 2019 she contributed to Jasleen Kaur’s book Be Like Teflon with the parallel text The Feeder and Feeding.
Recent curatorial projects include Background Music (2024), the first UK solo exhibition of Diné (Navajo) composer, performer and artist Raven Chacon, centering on his graphic scores presented at Chelsea Space, London; and the 2021 co-curated Borås Art Biennial, Deep Listening for Longing, in Borås, Sweden.
In 2019 she contributed to Jasleen Kaur’s book Be Like Teflon with the parallel text The Feeder and Feeding.