Ġulja Holland

Ġulja Holland (b.1990) is a figurative painter based between London and Malta

“While I would describe myself as essentially optimistic, my practice lends me a safe space to explore the darker aspects of the human condition on a personal scale as well as on a global scale. Self-identity, environmental destruction and existentialism are recurring themes in my work.

My latest works mainly pay homage to Hieronymous Bosch and Francis Bacon. From them, I borrow apocalyptic narrative, religious symbolism, surrealism as well as a reversal of scale of animals and humans to convey the ever-increasing instability of hierarchical order brought about by the arrival of the Anthropocene Epoch.”

PADA is an Art Residency & Gallery based in a post-industrial site near Lisbon, Portugal.

Video by Apertura Studios.

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