Holly Foskett-Barnes (b. 1990) was born and educated in London/Oxfordshire, UK. She moved to the south west to study Contemporary Fine Art at Dartington College of Arts, later merged with Falmouth University, graduating with First Class Honours in 2012. Foskett-Barnes graduated with a postgraduate degree in Religious Arts of Asia at the School Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) in 2016, specialising in early Buddhist art from the Himalayas and South East Asia, undertaking field research in Nepal. She has had a solo exhibition in Dali (Yunnan, China) in 2011 and a first UK solo show at HOURS (Bristol, UK) in 2024. Holly lives and works from her studio in Bristol where she facilitates nature interconnection workshops, ritual storytelling performances and pursues her artistic practice.