Henry Holland In Conversation

Join Henry Holland, curator of the Society's 2026 Summer Show 'There's No Place Like It', who will be in conversation with Art Review's Fi Churchman.

Henry has been designing products for fashion and interiors for the last 15 years, most notably with his label House Of Holland and recently launched Henry Holland Studio. Established in 2008, House of Holland rose to fame with its cult slogan T-shirts - "I’ll Tell You Who’s Boss Kate Moss" - which catapulted the brand into becoming a regular at London Fashion Week for 13 years with its distinctive approach to bold pattern and colour.

In 2021, Henry stepped away from fashion and started taking ceramics lessons at his local pottery studio in Hackney. Initially intended only as a part-time endeavour, he quickly fell in love with the calming process of building ceramics by hand, enjoying the slower pace it offered compared to the fast world of fashion. Exploring his own interpretation of the nerikomi ceramic technique, Henry created a signature look for his ceramics using different brightly coloured clays. This technique involves the slow method of stacking, folding and rolling differently coloured clay into slabs, then hand moulding them into functional shapes. 

Fi Churchman is Editor at ArtReview. Her writing focuses on photography and moving image (though her areas span contemporary art, literature and food culture, too). Since joining the magazine in 2016, she has interviewed and written features on photographers such as Tyler Mitchell, Dayanita Singh, Yuki Kihara, Annie Leibovitz, William Eggleston, Tim Walker, Catherine Opie, Stephen Shore, Claudia Andujar and more. She has organised and participated in several public talks programmes with ArtReview, including: ‘Art and Incarceration’ (part of Archie Moore’s Golden Lion-winning Australian Pavilion programme, 2024); ‘In Conversation with Nikhil Chopra’ (Asia Now, 2024); ‘Art & Tech: Protecting Artists and Enabling Creativity’ (DACS, 2024); ‘In Conversation with Oscar Murillo’ (David Zwirner, 2024). She was the editor for Troika’s monograph Untertage (2024). Prior to her role at ArtReview, she worked at Tate Etc. and Eye Magazine. Prior to this she worked in pastry.