COMING SOON: ERIN HOLLY'S SOLO EXHIBITION AT JD MALAT GALLERY, MAYFAIR
October 2023
Erin Holly is a London-based emerging artist who is confronting the politics of gender and sexuality embedded into our environment. Having graduated from the City and Guilds School of Art in London, Holly's artistic practice spans from the creation of small watercolours to public large-scale murals. Embodied, scored, and arranged. These are the words British artist Erin Holly uses to describe the deeply personal artistic process behind her highly anticipated debut London exhibition at JD Malat, ‘A Trans Arrangement of The Painted Space’.
On view at the gallery from 16th November until 9th December, this exhibition unveils Holly’s new series of oil paintings of colourful and semi fictional fabrications of interior spaces. Coinciding with Trans Awareness Week (13th – 19th November), the exhibition offers a critical exploration of interior environments, their connection with the politics of space and inclusion, contemporary social categorisations, and, Holly’s journey with identity and the understanding of embodiment.
Inspired by DIY manuals and interior advertisements from the 1950s through to the present day, Holly’s paintings function as restructurings of space. As Holly states: ‘I am deeply involved with the process of unlearning and undoing, remaking and rebuilding as a way to find spaciousness in my practice and work.’
Presented on the first floor of JD Malat Gallery, the exhibition welcomes visitors to explore Holly’s deeply personal journey, influenced by her experiences, intuition, and a continuous process of unlearning, remaking, and rebuilding. ‘A Trans Arrangement of The Painted Space’ gives viewers space to reflect on their own authentic sense of ‘self’, and question how that authentic ‘self’ can occupy space in the real world.
JD Malat. Claridge House, 30 Davies St, London W1K 4NB
