Holly Graham

Much of my work explores changeable narrative structures, stemming from a preoccupation with the malleability of memory and the subjective nature of collective experience. Bound up in this lies an interest the relationship between image, text and spoken language as recording mechanisms. This has prompted the discussion of formal concerns within my work surrounding questions of how fragmenting, repositioning and deleting of content alters and abstracts to create multiple varied readings, mimicking processes of recollection.

Momma Carmen Plummy

A brother nicknamed 'Brother'

A sister referred to as 'Momma'

A grandmother who's name is 'Aunt'

Momma Carmen Plummy looks at names and pet-names within Caribbean family tradition. Often eclipsing an individual's christian name, these nicknames denote familiar relationships and reference familial structure. The story-tellers recall and recount personal narratives which nestle within wider cultural histories – of social positioning and migration.

Lenticulars

The double image loiters along the boundaries of fixedness, teetering on the edge of reanimation. I have been looking at found family photographs taken in quick succession, and have been inserting these into the simple form of the lenticular image and the more recent gif. format. These awkward flickerings seem to me a jarring suspension in time, a fragment which refuses to sit still, a quivering, half-animated pause.