Painting

Fíne Holohan

Beneath the Skin

I explore the use of ancient, ancestral, and industrial practice. A self-defined existentialist crumbling under modern madness, I acknowledge this particular interest in the Anthropocene, is presumably the result… However conflicting this, I have a deep affection for the mining industry that cannot be ignored. Solutions for better relationships with the land, local industries, and communities, is what interests my practice.

This year I deviated from the traditional studio space to pursue on-site, research-based, environments. I participated in, two (unrelated), Land Regeneration Projects; one in Donegal with Wild Awake Ireland, and the other in Portugal with Quarry Sonnets 2022. These projects are significant to this current body of work which negotiates re-wilding and intuitive space. Further, it re-assesses what it means to leave a mark when using applications of sustainable practice.

There is emphasize on the materiality and physicality of the process. Intimate interactions between the maker and the material, the living, and the land, temporality, and death, expand the practice. Painting, drawing, film, sound, poetry, and installation are included as primary artistic outputs. Primary materials include cotton fabrics, ash, wool, wood, earth, charred materials, and animal materials such as Bones, hair, sinue and animal skin glues.

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