Silence by Lisa Holden
Lisa Holden’s work explores themes relating to memory, and personal and collective identity. Her poetic, multi-layered images often reference 19th century art, from the Pre-Raphaelites to Klimt and Schiele.
One of the main themes in Holden’s images is identity. Growing up in England as an adopted child, with no knowledge of her birth family and roots left Holden with a sense of exclusion.
US-based author and critic Matt Damsker wrote: ‘Her work explores the slippery slopes of identity through a mixed-media blend of digital photography, paint and more. […] her work is utterly of today on one hand, yet washed in the tonal and thematic history of vintage photography combining, for example, mythic feminine imager with a sense of modern anxiety, fragmentation and freedom.’