Husk, 2018, oil on panel
Garden centre, 2018, oil on panel
White mountain, 2018, oil on panel
The Oh No Flower, 2018, oil on panel, 59.5 x 45.7 cm.
Blips, 2018, oil on canvas, 60.9 x 76.2 cm.
Bad Burn, 2018, oil on panel
Float II, 2018, oil on panel
Float I, 2018, oil on panel, 23 x 30 cm.
Bike Rider, 2018, oil on plywood board, 30 x 30 cm.
No sunglasses, 2018, oil on panel
Husk (windy), 2018, oil on panel
Pool endorphin, 2018, oil on canvas covered panel, 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
Two daisy, 2017, oil on canvas covered board, 29 x 45 cm.
Bellyflop, 2018, oil on panel,
Oh no cat, 2018, oil on panel, 12 x 10 cm.
The weather girl, oil on panel, 22 x 35 cm.
Forager, 2018, oil on panel, 25 x 18.5 cm.
Hang in there, 2018, wooden dowel, found sheet, oil and synthetic polymer paint, approx. 200 x 150 cm.
Sun, 2018, oil on panel, 7 x 11 cm.
Flower, 2018, oil on panel, 7 x 11 cm.
Installation of 'The Oh No Sun'
OuterSpace, 3-24 August, 2018
Holly Anderson attempts to articulate, through painting, her anxiety and neurosis towards a world in a state of ecological crisis. Rather than hold us hostage with a visual lecture on environmentalism, Anderson examines her own tumultuous relationship with a sun too hot and weather burdened by global warming. The Oh No Sun exposes the irony of sun soaked summer landscapes as romantic sites of pleasure; for Anderson these places come coupled with ominous warnings of skin cancer, radiation and environmental destruction. Burnt bodies, blinding sunlight and turbulent waters act as a cross-section of violence experienced in these places. Anderson walks us through this heatwave with a gentle hand and equally gentle paintings – with the threat of the sun beating down on our backs we are shown a familiar world made strange, reminding us that Australia boasts the second highest diagnosis rate for melanoma and that we are probably due for a skin check.
- Caity Reynolds, OuterSpace director
Documentation courtesy Charlie Hillhouse
