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This week on FORUM join us to welcome guest artist, Polly Hollyoak.
Polly’s large-scale paintings present a dialogue between pop and abstraction.
Straddling the boundaries between pop culture and abstraction, Polly’s work explores colour, pattern and layering techniques through the medium of painting.
Borrowing freely from media imagery in our consumer culture, Polly explores notions of consumption and desire by highlighting the volume and cacophony of imagery to which we are incessantly exposed.
Through the process of cropping, juxtaposition and layering, images are transformed, and the distinction between what is real, and what is representational dissolves away.
Polly has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting), and a Master of Fine Arts (distinction in both degrees), and a Trade Certificate in Signwriting.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally.
Text and image: courtesy of Polly Hollyoak
Edited Lee-Ann Joy
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