holly@hollyalbright.com | www.hollyalbright.com
Holly Albright graduated from St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London where she honed her artistic and sartorial skills whilst living in the style capital of the world. She could not fail to be inspired by the music, history, art and culture which surrounded her there, and which continue to inspire her paintings and artwork. To add to that is another side to the city – to any city. The shady characters of the clubbing underworld and dive bars of the city. The dark desires of magnetic yet narcissistic strangers. The shadowy glamour of a social scene which all to often seems seedy in the cold stark reality of daylight. The interplay between the sexes, the yin and yang, the ego and id, the smoke and mirrors – it all fascinates her. Her inner world sculpted by her personal experiences influences everything that she does.
Holly’s paintings are like stream of consciousness dreamscapes, hallucinatory experiences which evoke (but by no means approach the genius of) Klimt, Schiele, Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Basquiat, LaChapelle: their trademark styles imprinted on and recognized by the collective psyche – high art meets pop art. Hitchcock, 90s supermodels, Gatsby, Film Noir, Betty Paige, Louise Brooks, taxidermy, pulp fiction, Gil Elvgren’s pin-ups, Blade Runner, burlesque, all seem to infiltrate the imagery of her work whether it’s illustration or large-scale painting.
