Holly Nicholls is a British artist based in Scotland, her multi-disciplinary practice engages with ideas of legibility and abstraction in regard to the natural world. Using accrued layers of observation; performed, repeated and reversed gestures develop an ongoing visual vocabulary. Preoccupied by the gaps between what we see and the language we use to describe it, her practice operates in the provisional, the hypothetical and the imaginative— imbuing a poetic nature to system building.

 

Recent work has centered around the motion and cycles of the sterna paradisaea || Arctic Tern. Using time as a durational tool and movement as embodied knowledge, she has used this research to mimetically understand her own sense of passage and belonging. Holly is examining the cadence between external and internal landscapes, substantiating the incorporeality of personal mythologies concerning being and moving within a place.