Holly Walsh
she/her
You Know Where To Find Me
Holly describes herself as an emotionally driven artist, working in painting, sculpture, and installation.
For the last five years, her part-time job and her educational life have run in parallel. They have been active at the same time, all of the time. The experience is repetitious and familiar: the highs and lows of part-time work.
You Know Where to Find Me combines her craft as an artist and her role as a supermarket bakery assistant, using the structure of the “celebration cake” as a journal, rather than a special occasion, to represent her own inner dialogue.
In terms of painting, colour emphasises an artificiality in her compositions. Holly explores the self in her paintings and how parts of you are pushed down to work instead. One white uniform, one objective, one part-time job.
The artist is the baker, but by translating it onto the canvas, the baker is reclaimed by the artist.
Morning Shift, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
Taidgh, oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cm.
Rush Hour, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm.
Dear Friend, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
You had your cake, and took some of mine, foam, Polyfiller, acrylic, 25 x 10 cm.
What Now?, 2026, foam, Polyfiller, acrylic, 35 x 10 cm.
You Know Where to Find Me, oil, Polyfiller, oil stick on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
Old Doors are Closing, oil, Polyfiller, oil stick on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
It Never Seems to Be Enough, oil, Polyfiller, oil stick on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
Will I Be Here Forever?, oil, Polyfiller, oil stick on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
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