Kudos acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. They are the traditional custodians of the land Kudos operates on. We create, design, share, and exchange our work and knowledge on this important meeting place. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to any First Nations people who engage with Kudos. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.
| I am an emerging artist based in sculpture and installation, living and
working on Gadigal Country. Fostering a symbiotic relationship between my
body and materials I exchange with, I collaborate with the malleable nature
of clay in all its fired, greenware, unfired, glazed and unglazed states to
transform my lived experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder, into
physical forms that reflect the tension held within my body. A heightened
haptic and tactile sensibility shapes my experiences and interactions as I
move through space, and I reflect this through the suspension of materials
with opposing weights such as clay with panty hose or tulle to make this
mental and physical experience palpable to interacting audiences. My
practice operates at the cusp of verbality, bringing to form feelings and
experiences that I can't find the words for, but feel so perfectly expressed in
what I make. The physicality of the clay medium allows me to do this more
so than the painting and printmaking that I previously was centred in,
because of the way clay directly touches my body, not through the channel
of a paintbrush or a printing plate, but my body and the clay in direct
conversation, channelling each other. Through continuing to understand
myself through interaction with the clay medium, I hope I can allow others
to find and understand the tensions they hold within them. Hearing of other
people's experience of obsessive compulsive disorder has been lifesaving
to me, so if through my art career I can do the same for someone else, I
would be fulfilled. @mollyhollandartist |
| Hold on me |
Molly Holland, Hold on me, 2024. Raw and fired clay, glaze, resin, wire tulle, jute twine, upcycled panty hose. Dimenisions variable: Hanging at varying heights from the floor, from a 4 metre high ceiling in pictured images, occupying ceiling space of approximately 1.5 x 1 m. "Working from clay, and the way it converses with other materials in both its fired and unfired states, I draw on a psychologically engrained way of experiencing the world with a heightened haptic and tactile sensibility, that stems from my lived experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The tactile sensibility instilled in my body through this experience is a psychologically engrained way of seeing the world and engaging with surroundings and has been since I was a child". |