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Jim Holyoak

Jim Holyoak is a drawer and writer, based in British Columbia, Canada. His discipline is comprised of book arts, ink-painting, and room-sized drawing installations. In parallel to his solo practice, Holyoak has orchestrated numerous collaborative drawing projects, often with fellow artist Matt Shane, and sometimes involving hundreds of people drawing together. Holyoak received an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and studied as an apprentice to master ink-painter Shen Ling Xiang, in Yangshuo, China. He has attended artist-residencies in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Banff, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and throughout Norway. His work has circulated widely in Europe and North America, including at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal, the GEM Museum of Contemporary Art in The Hague, Tegnerforbundet (Drawing Association) in Oslo, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Rīga, the Carnegie Mellon International Drawing Symposium in Pittsburgh, and the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, UK.

“Though the content of my work ranges from the biological to the phantasmagorical, there is a persistent interest in human empathy for other species, and in the difficulty of fathoming deep time – the world millions of years ago, and the world ahead. The animals I contemplate most are the species that never existed, that no longer exist, and those that are on the brink of extinction. For example, dinosaurs fascinate me because they are completely real and completely imaginary – they are monsters for real. This tension between what is real and imaginary, what once existed and no longer exists, is the uniting principle in all my work.” – Jim Holyoak

Kimberly 2

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Kimberly 2

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Kimberly

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Kimberly

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Inversion

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Inversion

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Jotunheimen

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Jotunheimen

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Blue Whale Skull

Jim Holyoak

Blue Whale Skull

$1,090.00

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Book of Moths

Jim Holyoak

Book of Moths

$3,200.00

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Konrad and Geese

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Konrad and Geese

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Burn Way

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Burn Way

$1,460.00

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Chiroptera Faciem

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Chiroptera Faciem

$1,280.00

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Anomalocaris Mandable

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Anomalocaris Mandable

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Fry Creek Troll

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Fry Creek Troll

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Book of Bats

Jim Holyoak

Book of Bats

$4,420.00

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From All That He Loves

Jim Holyoak

From All That He Loves

$660.00

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Conversation

Jim Holyoak

Conversation

$670.00

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Wandering Gargantuan Baby

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Wandering Gargantuan Baby

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June Fungus

Jim Holyoak

June Fungus

$640.00

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The Navel of The Earth

Jim Holyoak

The Navel of The Earth

$3,830.00

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By the Klanawa River

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By the Klanawa River

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Huge Hulking Mountain

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Huge Hulking Mountain

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Jutunheimen 2

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Jutunheimen 2

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Kootenays

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Kootenays

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Newt in the Clouds

Jim Holyoak

Newt in the Clouds

$900.00

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