Holly’s practice takes the form of modern-day rituals and folkloric artefacts through the use of installation, video, textile, sound and ceramic. She works from an animist and environmentalist point of view to question and reinterpret modernity’s materialist values, her recent work being set in a speculative future sitting on the border of myth and reality. Made under the context of the climate crisis, she animates the natural world to reimagine contemporary religious practice as social action.
She has shown work across the South West, including her 2023 solo exhibition at the Fish Factory Arts Centre in Penryn.
A video collage of found footage exploring the role of dance in traditional celebrations and rituals. It involves footage from the 1960’s to 1997, depicting processions and dances from folk celebrations in Cornwall. Video credits cornishmemory.com
Bisque-fired ceramics exploring motifs from mythology and ancient stone carvings.
Folk mask made from paper maché, fabric and dried flowers. Created for a May Pole dance at Spike Open Studios preview night.
Wood, steel, canvas, oil paint, water, sound piece This water vessel was made as a fictional religious 'artefact' set within a speculative future, where sound can purify water. Acting as a sound sculpture, music emanates out of the tray.
