Holly King: Edging towards the Mysterious

For twenty five years Holly King has been creating photographic works that are immediately recognizable for their integration of numerous other disciplines, particularly painting, sculpture and scenography. Working from models and miniature sets that are powerfully illuminated and then photographed, King’s imposing large-scale photographs offer an intimate vision of perfect landscapes that hover between memories of real places and nostalgia for imaginary sites. Historical, cinematographic and painterly references - notably Caspar Hauser Friedrich and JW Turner - abound in her richly detailed works.

This ten-year mid-career retrospective exhibition catalogue is comprised of four of her most recent series: Twisted Roots, Mangroves: Floating Between Two Worlds, Grand Canyon: Unscene and the recently completed English Cliff series

This publication was generously donated to Critical Distance by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and we are offering it under a pay-what-you-can payment structure. 

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Authors
Linda Jansma
Francine Paul

Publishers
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Thames Art Gallery, Chatam
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Art Mûr, Montreal
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup

Publication Date
2015

Binding
Hardcover, full-colour images

Size
9.25 x 10.25 inches
116 pages

Languages
English
French

ISBN
978-1926589893