About

Skye Tholstrup (b. 2001, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across collage, crochet, latex and sculpture. Her practice draws on myth, art history and the body to create tactile worlds where beauty, desire and discomfort collide.

A graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, Tholstrup received a First Class Honours degree in Textile Design and was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at the Dorset Open 2025.

In 2026, her work was exhibited at Matt Carey-Williams, London, as part of Scene XVII: pity this busy monster, where she presented Because of You, Girl with Claw and Harpies.

Transformation sits at the centre of Tholstrup’s practice. Drawing from religious imagery, mythology, historical symbolism and representations of the body, she reworks familiar visual languages through tactile and unexpected materials. Crochet, collage and latex become tools for creating forms that exist between the seductive and the unsettling, the soft and the sharp.

Alongside her studio practice, Tholstrup works across art, fashion and image-making, with an interest in creative direction, styling and storytelling. She previously trained at the Joana Vasconcelos Atelier in Lisbon, contributing to large-scale projects including Valkyrie Miss Dior for Dior’s Paris Fashion Week.

Education

2022–2025
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
BA (Hons) Textile Design, First Class Honours

Selected Exhibitions

2026
Scene XVII: pity this busy monster
Matt Carey-Williams, London

2025
Dorset Open
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Emerging Artist Prize

Selected Experience

2023
Joana Vasconcelos Atelier
Lisbon - Atelier Trainee

2022
Henry Hudson Studio
London - Studio

2019–2020
Philip & Charlotte Colbert
London - Studio Intern