Drew Connor Holland
Drew Connor Holland works with softly coloured imagery, often figurative and recognisable, printed on cotton paper that he makes himself (from old clothes, sketchbooks and discarded artworks). The colours and focus may be soft, but his subject matter represents dissatisfaction with this place and this time, art and history, and occupies a space between the digital and the physical.
Images of people and landscapes on paper that seemingly crumbles under their weight, describe an idealised, re-proportioned metamorphosis. His work evokes the current instability in western culture, with recurring motifs of cowboys, unicorns and text, often on backgrounds that are washed-out and barely there. He is influenced by “cultural nostalgias”, which he uses to achieve a shared virtual space outside history.
Drew Connor Holland is a New South Wales based artist who works on Gadigal, Gayemagal and Awabakal land. Holland graduated from Sydney’s National Art School in 2018 with a Master of Fine Art (Painting) and has been exhibiting since 2013 with solo exhibitions at Nasha, NSW (2022); Jan Murphy Gallery (2019, 2023); ALASKA projects, NSW (2017, 2018); and Galerie Pompom, NSW (2020). Regionally and internationally, his work has been included in Disintegration: Metadrawing and Expanded Drawing (Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 2022), Wrestlemania (Rockhampton Museum of Art, 2023), Shimmer (Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, 2022), and the Auckland Art Fair (2023).
Holland’s work has been recognised through key awards including the 2022 Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship Shark Island residency, and as a finalist in major national exhibitions including the Blake Prize (2024), Mosman Art Prize (2024, 2025), Gippsland Print Award (2015), and Hatched: National Graduate Show (2017). His works are held in public collections including Maitland Regional Art Gallery and Townsville City Galleries.
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