Holly Alice Brown
My practice methodology involves experimental and diverse scanography to create digital collages. I engage in the art of consideration and collection of female imagery to generate these layered compositions. Narratives are created through textural layering and blurring to explore the way identity is a malleable construct that can be easily manipulated. An image can be unmade and remade, and here I use image-making to interrogate repressions of female individuality, glimpsing beneath the mask that can shield and conceal our true nature. Personal lived experience as a young woman encountering the paradox of identity has inspired my works, leading me to be enthralled by the multiplicity of personas women retain. I bring collected imagery together with a personal narrative, allowing further depth and emotion. I am exploring the side women conceal from others, and on the contrary the side they unveil to others, often resulting in a conflict of identity as they wrestle with the contrast between their inner psyche and the self produced by shared cultural imagination. I aim to make images that are both contemplative and reflective of these ideas and concepts.
The 'Calm' One, 2020
Digital collage
Pressure, 2020
Digital collage
The 'Smiley' One, 2020
Digital collage
Unmasked, 2020
Digital collage
The 'Stern' One, 2020
Digital collage
