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Denise Holland

Salted Shopping Cart (Magical Thinking series)

Shopping cart, felt, thread, tree branch, steel, concrete, salt, matches, 60”h x 120”w x 120”d, 2017 Using the destructive language of western colonization, I create innocent, humorous, “feminine” spells to fix impossible world problems often created directly by patriarchal power imbalances. Magical thinking is defined as an “irrational belief that one can bring about a […]Read Post ›

No Trespassing

No Trespassing, 2016. Metal, vinyl, plaster, dirt. 80″h x 60″w x 52″d. No Trespassing is a playful exploration into the concepts of borders, boundaries and ownership. The white-on-white sign melds into the white wall and the handwritten No Trespassing lines creep along the seams of the concrete floor. Viewers are faced with a decision of […]Read Post ›

Conform

Conform, wood, metal, clamps, electrical cord, 2016, 94cm x 58cm x 48cm I am intrigued how institutions, organizations and corporations seem to lose their moral compass when power becomes too enticing. The entity acts in a way that individuals often wouldn’t. These retro institutional chairs represent a stack of conformity that is clamped in place […]Read Post ›

Trespass

Trespass, plaster, dirt, steel pipe, 2016, 160 cm x 152cm (variable) Interested in the colonial power and control concept of property ownership, I trespassed on several sites in Vancouver including Spanish Banks, Chinatown, my own garden, under the Burrard Street Bridge and Point Grey Golf Course. While there, I dug a small hole, poured plaster […]Read Post ›

Kitchen Table

Kitchen Table, 2015. 6 audio files. I am a non-Indigenous Canadian that grew up with an incomplete view of Canadian history. As a first step in trying to reconnect the dots, I have read the Truth and Reconciliation Report several times and created art projects in support of reading it. Outlining a much-needed perspective from […]Read Post ›

Transition

Untitled, Concrete, cloth, wire, 2015, 165cm x 36cm x 36cm Experimenting with a material that is characterized as strong, I wanted to push it to take up a larger and lighter amount of space. This object is fragile yet strong all at the same time. The fractures are a reminder of decay, yet there is a […]Read Post ›

Hidden: Kits Point

Off the beaten track Click this link to see My Map on Google. Even better, take the walk. I created a Google My Map to learn about locations of interest around where I live. I walk by music, homelessness, eagles, shipping freighters and weird plants every day and didn’t really “see” them. I decidedly to look […]Read Post ›

Stump

Untitled, plaster, steel, 2015, 36cm x 10cm I began casting a segment of a tree stump in plaster and have used them in different configurations: sometimes with electrical cords attached to their undersides “plugged” into the wall of the institution, sometimes stacked 20 pieces high to emphasize repetition of the same object in contrast to […]Read Post ›

Cocoon

Cocoon, wool, wax, 2014, 182cm x 20cm Hanging from the ceiling, this wool bound long object evokes the ocean, silence and meditation. There is a sense of transformation in progress as the insides look like they are breaking their binds. The wax objects stuffed into the wool are wax casts of my fingers.  

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