User:Jess Holdengarde

Jess Holdengarde is a visual artist (b.1991) originally from Cape Town and is currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland where she is completing her Masters in Fin Art at The Glasgow School of Art. Jess completed her BAFA at The Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2016. Jess works predominately in collage which extends her practice into print, photography, installation, and video.

Jess also works in education and activism. She worked as a part time junior lecturer in the photography department at The Michaelis School of Fine Art and still lectures photography at The Cape Town School of Photography. Recently she has been working on the Art+Feminism campaign which aims at improving coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. Dr Alexandra Ross and Holdengarde ran a pocket of the campaign as the first African Art+Feminism team when hosting wiki-editing workshops at UCT in 2016. Alexandra and Jess have recently been selected and funded to run workshops as part of an exhibition at UC Davis University in California, USA.

Jess received the Humanities Scholarship during her final year at Michaelis School of Fine Art and went on to complete an international residency at the Berlin Art Institute in 2017 and an internship at Warren Editions in 2018.