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.
Exhibition
BSL Gallery Tour: Out of the Blue: Landscapes of Chronic Illness by Joanna Holland
22 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Fri, 22 Sep
- 14:00 – 15:00
Free admission
Address
- Lancaster Road
- Leicester
England - LE1 7HA
- United Kingdom
Event map
Led by Olivier Jamin, from a Deaf perspective, this exhibition tour will be carried out in British Sign Language. Using his skills and experience working in the art sector and being an artist himself, Olivier helps audiences gain insight into an exhibition.
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.
The tour will focus on different pieces of artwork, and will be interpreted by a BSL interpreter into English.
For any additional access requirements please leave a comment on your booking and our team will be in touch if they have any further questions.
