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Holly Goodridge
Artist Bio
I am a neurodivergent artist working across hand-knitted garments, large-scale crochet installations, and participatory practice. My work explores neurodivergent embodiment, sensory politics, and collective care. Through the display of hand-knitted sweaters that audiences are invited to touch, I create spaces that encourage a slowing down, and shared connection.
Each garment is hand-knitted, a slow process that makes visible the labour embedded in both textile work and in living as a neurodivergent, chronically ill person. Onto these garments I have embroidered imagery and text drawn from my own lived experiences: phrases from medical encounters, experiences with overstimulation, and fragments of memory that speak to the invisible work of masking and enduring. The embroidery disrupts the knitted surfaces, just as these experiences disrupt the flow of everyday life.
Artist Statement
Holly recently completed her Master of Fine Art at RMIT University in which she won the Lowenstein's Art Management Award (2025). She has also exhibited in contemporary galleries across Melbourne, including The Shape of Rest at Mailbox Gallery (2025), Shrine to the Childhood Friendships We Wish We Had at Bus Projects (2024), Wrestling Before the Gateway at Assembly Point (2023), and Through the Doorway at Seventh Gallery (2022). In 2026 she will be a part of the Craft Victoria Fresh! Fellowship and her works are also held in the State Library of Victoria’s collection (2025).