ARTIST STATEMENT

Darcie Holliday’s work explores the wonders of human anatomy. The subject matter of the body is investigated by using innovative mediums to frame the fragile topic in a metaphorical manner, enhancing the bodies’ ingenious functions by celebrating the vulnerable organs. The work intends to give the viewer a closer look at something close to home (home being within their body), and brings to light the resourcefulness that constantly occurs internally to allow us to survive that people tend to take for granted. 

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The relationship between science and art is often thought of as opposite topics with no common ground. Lewis Wolpert the Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine at The University College of London is renowned for refusing the possibility of a shared relationship between art and science.

“Bringing the visual arts and science together is a false premise. Art does not help us understand how the world works - and to merge the two disciplines trivialises them both.” Lewis Wolpert

Holliday's work counteracts against Wolpert’s theory as it explores the wonder of science through art as it rejoices human anatomy through her curiosity that drives the process and in the outcome of the subject visually.