Posts by Holly

History painting pots – 2013 – 14 Ararat to Albania ‘Ararat to Albania’ honours the lives of three British women: Dr. Elise Maud Inglis, (1864-1917,) Mrs Mabel St. Clair Stobart, (1864-1952,) and Sergeant Major Flora Sandes, (1856-1956,) all of whom worked with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, founded by Dr. Inglis, in 2014, on the Balkan…

Monochrome Pots, 2016 – to date Bugger Porcelain, 2017 Bugger Porcelain was made in response to a short report of a legal case concerning an outstanding collection of Chinese porcelain, assembled by a British diplomat during his years in the Far East. The porcelain seemed to have a life of its own and was threatening…

Pots as Chronicles 2013-14 Nightwalker, 2014 ‘Nightwalker,’ depicts London by night seen through the eyes of Hossein, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee, and coloured by my image of London and my conversations with Hossein. The city has become a fairground for religious fanatics, political criminals, and colourful protestors. The fairground features Anjem Choudhary as the transvestite stripper,…

Five giant sized, broken and mended pots made in response to women’s accounts of surviving male sexual violence, 2004-7.

Atefeh Rajavi Sahaaleh, (1987-2004,) was a girl from a small town, Neka, in Northern Iran. Her mother died when she was a small child and her father was an addict and neglected her.