Holly Anderson

In The Graph, a curtain’s stripes map the journey of the Sun between midday and afternoon. These bursts of sunlight appear as circles of white negative space in the painting, creating an odd spatial dynamic where the Sun could seem both inside and outside the room. The dense patternation of the curtain creates a scintillating effect, echoing the effects of bright sunlight on vision. Stripes and grids are used across Anderson’s work to systematise space and observe the ways fleeting light phenomena threaten coherent spatial logic. This project is an approach to landscape painting, an attempt to develop a pictorial language for the perceptual puzzles, illusions and strangeness of the lit up world.