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Holly Rowan Hesson

Leeds
Artist and researcher making installation, sculpture and photography. Creating altered visual and sensory works responding to the experience of physical space, architecture and the built environment.
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I make installations, sculptural and photographic works that create altered visual and sensory effects and environments.

I do this with light through photography, projection and various other light sources. Alongside light I employ industrial and mass-produced materials that are either already highly coloured or that are colourless which I then enrich with colour. I use processes and materials that distort and disorientate, for example through reflection, blurring, layering and duplication.

My work is underpinned and motivated by my interests in how physical space, architecture and the built environment is experienced. I often explore sites in flux, transition or hiatus, working intuitively with the space as a material in itself as well as a container to make an intervention full of content and references to the surrounding context including economic, social, cultural and environmental.

Time is also important including the experience of the passage of time in the space in which I’m working, my own time and labour spent in making the work, the time taken for a viewer to experience and process the finished work and time as it relates to labour and value in general.

Ultimately my installations and sculptural works seek to visually draw you in, make you question what you’re seeing, juxtaposing and contrasting perceived reality, solidity, permanence and simplicity with uncertainty, fragility, ambiguity and complexity.

 

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