The Oh No Sun
solo exhibition at OuterSpace
Brisbane
3-24 August, 2018
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Garden centre, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Husk, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Bike Rider, 2018, oil on plywood board, 30 x 30 cm.
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, No sunglasses, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Blips, 2018, oil on canvas, 60.9 x 76.2 cm.
Holly Anderson, Blips, installation view of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Husk (windy), 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, The Oh No Flower, 2018, oil on panel, 59.5 x 45.7 cm.
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, White mountain, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, Sun and Flower, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Sun, 2018, oil on panel, 7 x 11 cm.
Holly Anderson, Flower, 2018, oil on panel, 7 x 11 cm.
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Bad Burn, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Bellyflop, 2018, oil on panel,
Holly Anderson, installation of The Oh No Sun, Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, 2018
Holly Anderson, Float I, 2018, oil on panel, 23 x 30 cm.
Holly Anderson, Float II, 2018, oil on panel
Holly Anderson, Pool endorphin, 2018, oil on canvas covered panel, 28.5 x 19.5 cm.
Holly Anderson, Two daisy, 2017, oil on canvas covered board, 29 x 45 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