Leg Up

Leg Up
by Anne Holliday
mixed media
60 cm X 60 cm
NZ $150 + freight /shipping costs

I am interested in 3-D space depicted on the 2-D surface and how outside and inside spaces relate to each other. Also how figures - human & animal - are defined on the 2-D surface by their absence, such as by an animal skin, a scarecrow, or a shadow. Or conversely by their presence when a body is evident. I am now making paintings of arms and legs and hands and feet where the body is more noticeable. Pain inflicted on one part of the body affects the entire body. I come from South Africa where pain and suffering are part of everyday life. Although I have been in New Zealand for nearly five years I can not just forget my roots.

Anne Holliday I was born in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa and lived there until 2001 when I moved to New Plymouth, New Zealand. I studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation where I received a Diploma in Graphic Design and at the University of the Witwaterstrand where I received a BA Fine Arts degree. I have some paintings in the Gencor Collection in Johannesburg and a painting in the National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. I live in New Plymouth with a cockatiel called Toby. email Anne

More of Anne Holliday's artwork can be seen in the Showcase section of the Virtual Tart site.