Holly Foskett-Barnes Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Holly Foskett-Barnes’ interdisciplinary practice takes seed in her allotment, on walks and in field research, working with sculpture, text, photography, watercolours and works on paper. Her work places importance on a devotional relationship with place through everyday ritualistic practices and site-specific intervention.
Foskett-Barnes considers the landscape as an extension of her studio, with gardening and walking as integral to the artistic process as drawing and painting. As an Artist-Writer, writing is an intrinsic part of her process, taking the form of textual works, essays, journals, poetry and documentation. Writing often precedes visual artworks and accompanies exhibiting works on display.
Works evidence an ongoing interest in ceremony, responding to ordinary, everyday happenings that offer entry to more-than-human perspectives, cultural signifiers, and relationship to land, time, and place. Foskett-Barnes engages with seasonal folklore and myth, tracing cultural-memory and observing perennial cycles, speaking to Celtic history and her background in Buddhist practice.
