Sigrid Holmwood - The Peasants Are Revolting

Sigrid Holmwood's work focuses on the ways in which the hand-making of materials generates meaning and resists the alienation of industrialised life. Holmwood uses the figure of the peasant - in her paintings but also through an adopted persona - as a means to highlight the links between the exclusion of European peasant culture and the suppression of indigenous pigment making technologies and practices through Western modernity and colonialism.