Holly Shepheard: Arbitrary

In this body of work Holly Shepheard focuses on intense and saturated liquid colours and how they may be gently manipulated to work in concert. Her inks seep and bleed together like dye on silk, their movements fleeting and elusive; the traces or stains embedded in the work remain as echoes of something suspended in a state of stasis.

In European tradition there are many ‘ways of knowing’, among them: memory, imagination, perception, and dreaming. There is a perceived hierarchy and order to these ways of knowing which Shepheard challenges by using particularly personal painting tools and processes, giving value to the senses and allowing the body to remember and reflect intuitively. As with previous works, Shepheard continues to work instinctively with an impulse that is natural to her rather than any intellectualised rationale. This enables her to bring together mind and body, understanding and emotion and to imbue the work with a part of herself. She perceives herself as an arbitrator – resolving tensions between materials, substrates and spatial concerns.

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