• Holly Anderson is included in 15 Artsits at Redcliffe Art Gallery. 15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to...
    Holly Anderson is included in 15 Artsits at Redcliffe Art Gallery.

    15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance City of Moreton Bay's Art Collection and exhibition program. 

     

    Holly Anderson uses painting to investigate sensory experiences with bright sunlight.  Works from her series ‘Pool studies’ present ongoing experimentations with the grid and negative space to reproduce sensual optical experiences in Australian landscape. 

     

    The pool presents a game of three surfaces for painting; its tiled floor, shifting water body and reflective surface must be collapsed into one autonomous plane. Small squares in a grid flatten these layers, while unpainted areas let sunlight’s brilliance emerge from negative space. In these works, splashes conceal the grid beneath their shine, a ray of light refracts a rainbow, and water’s surface cracks like glass in a burst of sunlight. Anderson’s Pool studies observe the optical anomalies produced by bright sunlight as spatial anomalies in painting. With this method, Anderson proposes a relationship between our senses and the world that is stranger than at first glance. 

    • Holly Anderson Pool (bright), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (bright), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
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    • Holly Anderson Pool (confetti), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (confetti), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
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    • Holly Anderson Pool (corona), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (corona), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
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    • Holly Anderson Pool (crash), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (crash), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm
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    • Holly Anderson Pool (ray), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (ray), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
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    • Holly Anderson Pool (target), 2024 oil on panel 24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
      Holly Anderson
      Pool (target), 2024
      oil on panel
      24 x 30 cm / 26 x 32 x 5.5 cm (framed)
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  • Installation view, Holly Anderson Pool Studies. Redcliffe Art Gallery, Queensland.
  • From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. Bursts of sunlight...

    From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. Bursts of sunlight populate familiar subject matter – interiors, figures, skies, and water are monochromic planes pierced with white light...

    Anderson's painting practice investigates sensory experiences between light and landscape. Hovering between the figurative and the abstract, raw brush strokes fragment into larger monochromatic compositions, building surfaces whose surprising flatness and geometry heightens the strangeness of their persistent realism.

     

    Sunlight permeates an array of Holly's subject matter, with bright bursts of white negative space disrupting the order of gridded geometric surfaces. These painterly grids of stripes and squares produce complex systems that bend or scatter where bright light flashes. Familiar subjects now appear in new light, composed behind the glare of a white hot sun and developing a new visual language for the brilliance of sunlight in the Australian landscape.

     

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