Gillian Holding’s work reflects everyday encounters with the mundane
and the familiar. It’s an oddly futile attempt to pinpoint moments of
the everyday and unremarkable (what happens when nothing happens):
futile, because the act of noticing and recording the everyday
paradoxically renders it extraordinary and often absurd. Her methodology
mainly involves wandering and recording urban ‘edgelands” and nameless
bits of nowhere in suburbs and suburbia both locally and far further
afield.
This response to the everyday is profoundly informed by
identity and place: how the psychological and geographical space where
we find ourselves affects our notions, perceptions and assumptions about
things. Sudden feelings of dissonance are generated when the familiar
suddenly seems unfamiliar despite its daily ordinariness.
She
often mixes painting and collage; partly it allows for a constant
changing of visual vocabulary to express a perpetual shifting response
to any given subject. But partly too it's an art form with disparate
elements, and so defies society’s obsession with categorising the world,
identity and place of the individual.
Gillian Holding was born
in Chester, UK, and is based variously in Leeds, London and
Paris. She maintains a studio with, and is a trustee of, East Street
Arts, Leeds.
Life and Art blog www.gilliansblog.wordpress.com
#adailyselfreflection blog www.gillianholding.wordpress.com
on Twitter @gillianholding and Facebook as Gillian Holding Visual Artist
07952 240291
mail@gillianholding.com
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