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Instal shot of Through the Doorway, 2022, photo by Ashish Narwade
Holly Goodridge expresses ideas of associating the self with systems connected to her lived experience. Using practice to escape the constrictions of neurotypicality, the works created represented metaphorical portals through the process of using an ‘automated-self’ to create a preferred space apart from reality. Using fluorescent colours and abstract forms, she draws a connection to a void of otherness, escaping the drab of systemic existence. Each painting serves as an act of escapism, diverging from a world that is perplexing, to a new space that is comprehensible to her personal existence.
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder last year, the links that relate between her practise and lived experience became coherent. Familiar imagery blended alongside the unknown, her paintings evoke a sense of self that social hierarchies exclude, years of partaking in social rituals that never made sense to her, often feeling astray and alienated..
Photos by: Ashish Narwade
For tens of thousands of years, the First Peoples of this land have nurtured rich, continuous cultural and artistic practices. Some of the earliest weavers of fibre, land, story, and community.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which I live, learn, create and rest, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations.
I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations people reading this.
Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.