In her recent series Les Mondes – Frax 4D, Armishaw bridges the distance between “normative” photography, exemplified by the generic horizontal landscape format photograph, which is the familiar fundamental of pictorial space, and a completely synthesized digital image, a mathematically-generated morphed shape not recognizable as any particular form. In her attempt to represent the unseeable – a hypothetical, supernatural reality – her work reveals the fragility of photographic representation and introduces into it a new kind of abstraction.
Artist Bio
Holly Armishaw
Holly Armishaw was born in Lacombe, Alberta in 1976. She was raised there until the age of eighteen when she left her home to pursue independence and an education in the fine arts. After finishing prep school, Holly studied liberal arts at Canadian University College and then fine arts at Red Deer College. In 1997, Holly moved to Vancouver to attend Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design where she attained her BFA in photography with top honours in 2000. Since graduation, Holly has been traveling and pursuing independent research. she has been working at one of Canada’s premier photographic and digital imaging facilities in Vancouver while producing independent new work.
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