Lydia Holmes is an emerging Irish artist who approaches her practice from a neutral, totalizing and globalized point of view. Motivated by current spectacular manifestations of international discontent she embraces the horizon of an uncertain future by creating alternative worlds and a vector of the possible.
Her practice is multi-disciplinary utilising the full range of possibilities offered by sculpture, drawing and painting. Through the repurposing and re-presentation of commonplace objects, images and ideas Holmes narrows the gap between art and life whilst challenging the context, value and function of her new creations.
Since graduating with a first class honors degree in Fine Art in 2010 she has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. Recent exhibition include: a solo exhibition ‘Bio-technia’, Queen Street Studios, Belfast 2011; Void:Volume, Galway Arts Centre 2011, Drawing a Line, University Gallery, Belfast, 2011 (Curated by Hugh Mulholland); M-Machine, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2011 and Elephants at the Royal Standard, Liverpool 2011.
