About
Antonia Jolley
Antonia Jolley is an award-winning body positive nude and portrait artist from the Midlands, UK. Jolley studied Fine Art at De Montfort University, Leicester before starting 'Antonia Jolley Art' in September 2020. Since then, her artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions, magazines, and galleries around the UK.
Jolley's most well-known venture being the Every Body project, a collection of 123 nude watercolour paintings and testimonies, set to challenge the idea of a 'body standard'. Confronted by the amount of time she spent on social media during lockdown and thereby observing the lack of representation for all body types, Jolley chose to centre her artwork in a new direction – nudes. These paintings formed Jolley's hugely successful, first in-person solo exhibition, Every Body.
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Jolley is now continuing her work in new paintings and projects, continuing to focus on body positivity after winning 'Mental Health Business of the Year' in 2022.
Education
2017-2020
Fine Art
De Montfort University
Exhibitions
2022
04.03
18.03-20.03
CENSOR ME, I DARE YOU
CENSOR ME, I DARE YOU
London, UK
Loughborough, UK
2021
09.04
10.05-23.05
18.06-03.07
01.07-09.07
22.10-24.10
08.11-22.11
Tits, Pits and Naughty Bits
Online Exhibition
Antonia Jolley Gradcurate
Online Exhibition
One Year On
Leicester, UK
Art & Design Degree Show 2021
Leicester, UK
Every Body Solo Exhibition
Burton upon Trent, UK
Creative Lockdown
Leicester, UK
2020
28.09-01.10
28.09-04.11
06.11-27.11
Art & Design Degree Show 2020
Online Exhibition
Inspired in Lockdown
Leicester, UK
LOVE ART
Leicester, UK
2019
28.02
The Feast: Sight
Leicester, UK
features
2022
11.04
16.05
Artist Antonia Jolley to launch new Self Love Club!
Britian Uncovered
BBC Radio Derby
2021
01.03
22.04
31.08
01.10
02.10
Meet Antonia Jolley, the artist reshaping body image across social media
Disgraceful Magazine
Interview with body positivity artist, Antonia Jolley!
Britian Uncovered
Interview with Antonia Jolley Art
Snazz Magazine
Exhibition by local nude portrait artist to challenge instagram body perfect culture
Arts Derbyshire
Disgracefest: Painting nudes, body positivity and running your own business
Online Festival
AWARDS
2022
29.03
Mental Health Business of the Year 2022
WINNER
Snazz Magazine Awards
2020
28.11
People's Choice Award
RUNNER UP
LOVE ART Exhibition