CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Royal Society of Portrait Painters | Annual Exhibition 2024
09 - 18 May 2024
Mall Galleries, London, SW1Y 5BD
As one of the world’s greatest forums for portraiture, the annual exhibition by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters showcases some of the best painted and drawn portraits selected from national and international submissions.
Contemporary British Portrait Painters | The 2024 Exhibition
08 - 18 June 2024
The Department Store, Brixton, SW9 8FR
The CBPP Collective are proud to share this major new exhibition of work from some of the most recognisable and cutting-edge names in contemporary potraiture.
Terry Higgins - Three Ages of Terry
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2
National Portrait Gallery, London, WC2H 0HE
Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, Curtis Holder’s posthumous portrait of Terrence Higgins - one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS related illness - is a new addition to the gallery’s Primary Collection.
On display in the Making the Modern World gallery, a space dedicated to some the most important figures of the 20th century.
PAST SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Makers: Portraits from Backstage
National Theatre, London
27 January - 04 November 2023
The Makers: Portraits from Backstage is an exhibition by the National Theatre’s first ever Artist in Residence, Curtis Holder.
His multilayered pencil portraits are a love letter to the dynamic creative forces that exist behind the scenes of theatre, celebrating the incredible craftspeople, creatives and individuals that make the productions possible.
Something Unspoken
45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection, London
03 November 2021 - 22 January 2022
Drawing inspiration from intimate conversations with his subjects, Curtis Holder’s large scale multilayered pencil portraits are dynamically tender, revealing something of the inner life of his sitters.
His debut solo exhibition, Something Unspoken, features drawings inspired by 45 Park Lane.
All exhibitions
Read about Curtis’s past exhibitions, awards and achievements.