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Written by Emily Stephens (she/her) for The Rising Womxn Zine
Holly Houlton (she/her) is a recent first-class graduate from Coventry University; she is a photographer and writer based in the UK.
Houlton’s work mainly explores the subjects of people and place with a particular interest in the effects they have on one another in relation to experience and time. Using a personal approach, themes of intimacy, relationship and self-reflection are applied to interpret her surrounding environments. Specific attention to detail and light attempts to draw out the perhaps otherwise unseen and stimulate emotive contemplation.
Alongside her visual practice, she is also a passionate writer on photography in both the journalistic and academic form. Houlton is a listed author at Professional Photo Magazine and regularly contributes to and has been published by numerous other established magazines or platforms within the field.
Besides also taking part in exhibitions regarding her photographic practice, Houlton also volunteers at art galleries and festivals which have included: the Eastside Projects contemporary art gallery and the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art festival. She has also assisted professional photographers such as; Ian Farrell and Phillip Waterman.
Through Place and Mind responds to Houlton’s relationship with the British countryside. The body of work combines the use of photography, ambient sound and spoken word to express Houlton’s emotional links with the landscape. The work draws upon notions associated with the Romantic movement in its attempt to convey feeling and self-expression as a result of being within a landscape. The use of mixed media creates a timeless space and acts as a metaphor, responding to how landscapes are remembered and felt.
Viewers are taken on a sensory journey, enabling the audience to engage in a meditative experience. This aspires to invoke reflection on how the rural landscape and nature can provide a space for emotive contemplation through an exploration of place. The work aims to encourage viewers to consider their own relationship with land and place.
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