Colinci
International Contemporary Artist
Colin Hollidge, known professionally as Colinci, is an international contemporary artist working across fine art, light, and installation. He studied at Cambridge College of Art, where he developed a foundation in visual communication that continues to underpin his practice.
He spent over 25 years in the commercial design sector, founding and leading his own agency, while sustaining a parallel fine art practice throughout.
His work explores colour, light, and perception through a refined, process-led approach that bridges technical precision with experimental visual language. This long dual practice informs work that is both materially considered and conceptually driven.
Colin’s work has been exhibited widely across Europe and has received international recognition, including a front cover and feature in The Park magazine (New York), as well as broadcast exposure on Sky Arts TV. He has also been selected for major installation projects at a leading contemporary art centre in the south of France, exhibiting alongside internationally recognised artists.
Now working full-time as an artist, Colin divides his time between the south of France and the south of England, continuing to develop an evolving body of work that engages with perception, light, and the shifting relationship between physical and experiential space.
Colin Hollidge, working under the name Colinci, is a fine artist whose practice uses light to examine how visibility is constructed and understood. Working with lightbox-based forms, he brings traditional image-making and composition into dialogue with digitally controlled illumination, creating works that hold multiple readings within a single surface.
Through shifting light and layered imagery, each piece presents several narratives at once. Images emerge, overlap, and recede as illumination pulses slowly in and out, so nothing fully resolves. Meaning remains in flux — shaped as much by the viewer’s attention as by the work itself.
His visual language is direct and urban, using bold, psychedelic colour that echoes street-level visual codes: immediate, familiar, and legible. This initial clarity draws the viewer in, before revealing a more complex structure beneath.
What begins as accessible image-making gradually opens into layered storytelling, shifting focus from the immediately visible to what often sits outside it — overlooked people, labour, and lived experience. The lightbox becomes a space where multiple stories coexist, continually reconfigured through light and perception.
“My life long study of the cosmos and life around us has enabled me to translate it through my creations.”
