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Holly Brennan

Artworks

Narrative

Is mór an feall é. (It’s a jolly shame) explores the narratives and belief systems that
have been placed around my own strangeness and lacking; invoking seanfhocal* and dreams of Ireland. This work unravels tales that have bound me.
Specific narratives around shame are being liberated within this work. The vitrification of form, the final growth, left finally in the suggestion of movement – Change being the eventuality.  Slabs are rolled and informed by their environments, featuring the consequences of growth and containing illegible text which speak to the misunderstood. These contain messages of dreams and hopes for a better and new existence in a land no-longer bound by shame. The true narratives remain unseen hidden under a chaotic expressionist colour palette.
 Is mór an feall é is an ode. Forms forever stuck in the suggestion of movement, marked by their environments with tales of hope are the physical embodiment of my dreams for Éire.
Seanfhocal* are Irish proverbs full of knowledge, humour and wisdom.

Biography

Holly Helena Brennan is an Irish Ceramicist & Educator, informed by dreams of
Ireland and breaking tradition. Evoking prospects of hope in forms defined by
movement and a colourful expression, Holly aims to uncover and learn a new way of
existence free from intergenerational narratives.
Holly is a recent graduate of Ceramic/Glass & Education from The National College
of Art and Design. She received The NCAD Specialist Craft Award in 2023.

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