Tracey Holland
Tracey Holland uses film and photography to create work, mainly site specific, which has been shown extensively in the UK and internationally. Holland is involved with how certain types of imagery, moving image and still image sequences work together and incorporating this moving image within a vessel or projected into specific venues, so the two have interconnected form and subject matter. Certain elements of folk tale, myth and religion become reference points as archetypal imagery and themes interlink with preoccupations and personal interpretations of similar motifs. These psychological archetypes transcend a particular time and place, relating to unchanging truths about human nature and experience. Holland’s images can have an innate sense of history and contain elements of the naturalistic, but often these are out of place or askew. Combined with objects embodying a more personal iconography, the work is layered with place, time and history.
Her first solo exhibition was Mortal Remains (1992) shown at Site Gallery in Sheffield, Internationales de la Photographie d’Aries, France, Streetlevel, Glasgow, Cambridge Darkroom, Photographers Gallery and Special Photographers Company, London, and nominated for the ICI Fox Talbot Awards at Bradford’s NMFPT. Work from this featured in Thames and Hudson’s Flora Photographica, and was shown in the associated US and Canadian touring show. Installations include Green Earth’s End (1993) Walsall Art Gallery and Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, and The Twelve Keys (1995), Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough. The Photo’98 commissioned Vessel, shown at the Mappin, Sheffield was included in the Wellcome Trust’s Truth and Beauty internationally touring show (2002-4).
The film work Resurrection Stories was commissioned by Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (2005). In 2013, the ACE funded Magnetic Atlas was at St Johns Church, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Grimsby Minster (2017), PoetryFilm at Framework, London (2014), Casablanca Biennale (2016), Cyprus and South Korea (Engagement & Entrapment), and Comar Arts Centre, Scotland (2019). She has received many ACE awards and has work in several collections including Arts Council of Great Britain, Wellcome Trust, and the Mead Collection, University of Warwick.
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