London-emerging artist Erin Holly has been exhibiting large-scale oil paintings with visual imagery featuring liminal spaces. The catalogue-inspired architectures aren't of new design, yet they are contemporary, utilised as representations of the transitioning between the past and the current trajectory. Holly invites the viewer to reflect on their own emotional and physical journey.
In her works, you will come across specific locations such as sitting and dining areas and water closets, most unoccupied except for a few vertically standing figures. The paintings devoid of human forms aren't devoid of life: flowers, glasses of wine, and food can be observed as well as the architectural features too, which can be understood as characters or, at least, can be characterised. The characterisation of the spaces can be linked to the monochromatic colour palettes chosen, the location and the perspective in which the artist points the viewer.
Interviewing Erin Holly allowed me to delve deeper into these spaces and her artistic practice.
