About Me

My name is Holly Chapman and I am an assemblage sculptor utilizing mainly thrifted items. I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but I moved around a lot eventually landing in Lawton, Oklahoma for a long while. There I studied fine art with a focus in sculpture at Cameron University. College is where I fell in love with sculpture thanks to my amazing professor Benson. His challenge to take a object apart and reassembling it in an abstract way, lit a fire that I have never been able to calm and is still a thrill I never get tired of.

Sony Cybershot Camera ~ 2008

This is the piece that started it all. I still have her in a display case at home to remind me where it all began.

In 2010 I left college finding the dental lab industry which took me to Texas. There I continued to create art in my spare time while participating with the Wichita Falls Art Association. I even won “Best Abstract” in the Mystery Art Festival they host every year. Unfortunately, life got in the way and art was put on hold for many years. In 2019 we moved to Colorado where the thriving art scene was really pulling at my heart strings. With the overwhelming support of my husband, in 2021 I left the dental field to create art from my basement. I have since become a board member at the Denver Art Society, overseeing curation and new member curation orientation. I won first in the “VIP” category and second in the “Peoples Choice” category for my Colfax Marathon Mannequin in May 2024.

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Artist Statement

I create my work very intuitively while finding my inspiration somewhere between the object itself and the mood I am in. Most of the time I know exactly what I am going to do and what I want to convey, yet other times I can’t explain the reason I am drawn to pull things together until I am halfway through the project. This process allows me the freedom to make unexpected happy accidents, change the direction of a piece, and best of all the freedom for more creativity. I want my work to speak to people in an unexpected way, seeing something different in themselves while opening their minds to the creative chaos in all of us.