Lucinda Holmes

LUCINDA HOLMES

Small Worlds


27th June – 17th July 2008





Working with found and discarded objects while employing simple actions such as repeated marks, layering and arranging, Lucinda Holmes has created and installed two contrasting ‘worlds’ in the interior of the shed spaces. One expansive and yet miniature world consists of found everyday objects and materials carefully arranged and ornamented, suggesting ‘other worldly’ terrains. The other, an archive of objects representing a visualisation of the artists tool box, items and objects which exists prior to their embodiment as part of these ‘worlds’. Holmes is especially interested in the transformative nature and energy of place. Holmes’ work allows you to ‘travel lightly’ to dimensions of different scale and intimacy.



The placement and choice of materials is in response to the floor of the gallery. The worlds may have hills, deserts cities or lines of telegraph poles stretching out across barren plains. As part of the process of Holmes’ work she collects, organises and photographs objects, makes drawings, which are a major source or inspiration in her work. These drawings and photographic documentation are displayed as a sort of treasure trove which visitors can look through, in the smaller gallery space.



Lucinda Holmes’ practice encompasses photography, installation and painting but the process of drawing is central to her artistic approach. She has been accepted on New York’s Drawing Center’s Viewing Programme and was an artist in residence at the C4RD in London earlier this year. Prior to completing her masters in Drawing at Wimbledon College of Art Lucinda won the Hunting Art Prizes Drawing and Print Prize in 2001.