Exhibition
Joanna Holland: Out of the Blue: Landscapes of Chronic Illness
28 Jul 2023 – 08 Oct 2023
Attenborough Arts Centre
Leicester, United Kingdom
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first walks triptych (from 'cyanopic landscapes' series), photographs, © Joanna Holland, 2021-2023.
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rapture (from 'cyanopic landscapes' series), photograph, © Joanna Holland, 2022. rapture also forms part of ‘alarm call’ – an immersive installation featuring contrasting soundscapes of birds and medical MRI scanners.
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ascent/good day I & II (from 're-imagining my hospital bed' series),photographs, © Joanna Holland, 2023
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ascent/good day I & II (from 're-imagining my hospital bed' series),photographs, © Joanna Holland, 2023
Talk
Artist Talk: Joanna Holland
26 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Tue, 26 Sep
- 13:00 – 14:00
Free admission
Address
- Lancaster Road
- Leicester
England - LE1 7HA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Leicester Train Station
Event map
Join artist Joanna Holland for a talk to find out more about her current exhibition ‘Out of the Blue: Landscapes of Chronic Illness’.
About
Joanna Holland’s first solo exhibition, ‘Out of the Blue’, shares her lived experience of chronic illness. It brings together photographs, video, soundscapes and text from different bodies of work created over the last three years.
Collectively these works contemplate what it is to live ‘a life disrupted’, offering an insight into autoimmunity (where the body’s own immune system causes inflammation and damage).
The artworks in this exhibition share very real experiences of diagnosis, medication, side effects, chronic fatigue, hospitalisation, and the impact of [in]visible disability on family life. They also explore an interconnectedness with nature, and the complex entanglements between self, planetary health, climate change and biodiversity loss.
“Sometimes the beauty is in the shadows and the horror in the everyday.”
