Brigid Holt is in her first year of a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Brisbane. Over the last 6 years in Brisbane, Brigid has been involved in a number of solo and group exhibitions such as FRAMED 2019, It’s Just Paint 2018, and NICE 2015. Brigid’s work has also been featured in theatre productions such as ENGLAND by Tim Crouch in 2017 and 15 Days on a Sterile Floor by Jen Sutton in 2016.
Brigid has been heavily influenced by the body and the sophistication of the nude. She hopes to build her portfolio focusing more on portrait study. Through this lens Brigid’s inquest will further delve into the elements and quirks that aid the portrayal of character in an individual.
Partial is a body of work by Brigid Holt focused on person and body. In previous work, Brigid has featured the nude and naked quite frequently, aiming to highlight the relevance it has as an ever-changing state. In trying to strike a perfect dalliance between refined and gestural, many of these works will entertain a bold, bright palette detailed with sketch like evidence of artist hand. This concept was developed by homing in on what can be said about hat gut feeling we have when a painting is “finished” and exploring what happens if we ignored it.
Through this experiential process this series features many of the artist's self-portraits, as well as responses to the body. Brigid used these to test her urge to stop or push forward at uncomfortable, unconventional points of completion to learn more about her function as the artist, and what it means to leave a work unfinished. It forces the viewer to immediately respond by using their own imagination to decide where it might’ve ended and where it might have begun.
