Colour Of A Bruise
Bermondsey Project Space, With MAPA Fine Art. October 2022
Colour Of A Bruise is the unfurling of collected experiences. The show is a remnant in constant flux, the occurence of paint settling down into permanent form. Holmes uses painting as process of unearthing methods to investigate the relationships between bodies, where painting and the river are bodies connected to her own. She investigates a metaphorical translation of things from the external environment to an intangible space within a canvas.
The show is the result of elongating the process of making within Holmes' practice. It involves collecting, observing, and gathering until a breaking point, where she can no longer resist the urge to paint.
The collection is growing, the bruise will be painful. Sometimes it's a waiting game. Sometimes its too soon.
The overwhelming urge to create has resulted in an absurd amount of making. Holmes has built stretchers, made paint, boiled linseed oil, and washed all her canvas in the river. colour of a bruise is about an exertion of labour, which acts as an extended exchange between her body, the water, and the painting.
Splinters, sediments, water.
The immediacy of the paintings stems from this lengthy preparation process.
VESICLE (Colour Of A Bruise)
Oil, Oilstick and found objects on Canvas.
200 x 300 cm
2022
Okie Dokie Artichoke (I Think I Could Run Up A Wall)
Oil, Oilstick and found objects on Canvas.
200 x 125 cm
2022
Hey Daïya
Oil, Handmade pigments, found objects on Voile and Canvas.
200 x 250cm
2022
Blissful Ease Of A Self Destructive Trigger II
Oil on Canvas.
120 x 180cm
2022
Small Dog Water
Plaster, Expanding foam, and Cotton.
60 x 60 x 60cm
2022