Using a handmade, often cartoon vernacular Hendry creates sculptural vignettes that give physical shape to what is usually hidden beneath a surface. Exhibited here is a new work made whilst on residency at Casa Wabi in Mexico and is rendered in the natural colours of the earth and landscape. This shift from her often synthetic colour use to a more terrestrial palette is less a departure than a recalibration, bringing her ongoing interest in bodily interiority into close alignment with place. Clay acts like leather, paper or fabric, stitched and nailed to the wall, a nose is emerging from the material, impotently sniffing the air from the earth. 

Holly Hendry  b. 1990, London, lives and works in London, UK.