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Student Showcase Archive

Grace Holliday

MA work

MA work

  • Black Pen Book

    Black Pen Book, Grace Holliday 2015
    pen on paper
    210 mm x 148.5 mm | Photographer: Grace Holliday

  • Black Pen Book

    Black Pen Book, Grace Holliday 2015
    pen on paper
    200 mm x 148.5 mm | Photographer: Grace Holliday

  • Archive Strips

    Archive Strips, Grace Holliday 2015
    pen on paper
    420 mm x 100 mm | Photographer: Grace Holliday

  • Untitled

    Untitled, Grace Holliday 2015
    pen on paper
    420 mm x 594 mm | Photographer: Grace Holliday

Black Pen

For most people, black pens are 'default' – dark, bold and the loyal guide of outlines. Black Pen, however, challenges this preconception by acting as an on-going exploration of inked diversity. Through repetition, perseverance and combination, each pen drawing highlights a unique personality and constructs a passage of time into pattern. Here, there are subtleties to be found in every stroke; small dashes accumulate texture whilst each line decorates another row. Instead of being avoided, ink bleed-throughs are encouraged and the reverse of a drawing revealed as something beautifully enigmatic. The themes to be found in this archive describe a tension between restrictions dictated by the tool and a sense of aesthetic control – as some drawings come to an enforced end, others begin a new phase.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Visual Communication, 2015

  • As a mark-maker/illustrator my practice explores detailed drawing techniques in order to form collections of surfaces, patterns and figures. With a particular emphasis on process and tools, the way I make is intensive, often playing with a tension between chance and perseverance in order to produce works of either archival or narrative quality.

  • Degrees

  • BA Graphic Arts, Winchester School of Art, 2012