✸ Manchester-based artist + designer with a focus on food, community and environments
✸ Content and Resource Developer at Royal Horticultural Society (Communities)
✸ Contributing writer for MOLD Magazine
✸ Founder, editor and designer of FILLER, a self-published food and mental health magazine, now on its sixth issue.
Projects
- Common FieldsThe title of this project takes its name from arable land used for crop growing, as well as research into brownfield or ex-industrial sites around Manchester, and how they can be re-purposed for community use. A common is also defined as a piece of open land for public use, or a similarity shared by several groups, people or things. The similarity in this case, is a need (a right) to open green space, engagement with nature, and to fix the broken systems that determine how we source, consume and
- SALT OF THE EARTHCollaborative zine project launched to raise funds for Trussell Trust food banks during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020 an open call was put out across social media asking for artistic and written submissions based around the theme of "food and care" - four days later I had a 24-page zine full of work from 15 contributors, including low-cost recipes, poetry and prose, illustration and design. The second volume of SALT OF THE EARTH was released a month later, with 14 new contributions.
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Work history
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Contributing WriterMOLD
New York, United StatesFreelance
http://thisismold.com/author/hollyelizatemple
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Skills
- Design
- Visual Communication
- Writing
- Art Direction
- Branding
- Print Publications
- Book Arts
- Typesetting
Education
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Ba (Hons) Fashion Communication with Business StudiesUniversity of Brighton
- Brighton, United Kingdom
Second Class Honours (Upper Division), specialising in imaging and graphic design.
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Awards
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Santander Start-up GrantUniversity of Brighton
Recipient of Santander Start-up Grant for FILLER, in partnership with University of Brighton.