MELANIE HOULT - HOLDING

Kannitha Lim
May 20, 2024
1 min read

Updated: May 21, 2024

UNTIL 17 JUNE 2024 | GLIMPSE ART SPACE | 273 HIGH ST NORTHCOTE

Holding, 2024

Melanie Hoult

In our life we hold so much. Holding pain, expectations, insecurities, grief. Grief for our loved ones, climate grief, grief about the state of the world, grief over genocide.

We hold anger and disappointment. Over our treatment of First Nations people. For the so many deaths of women at the hands of their partners. For apathy.

We guard and contain. Our feelings, our children, our bodies. We support, we organise, protect and grow.

We hold our anxieties, our relationships, our families. We are trapped, obscured, held back. Buried.

We crack, leak, weep. Ferment and fester. We hold on for dear life.

We collapse, we break, we let go,

we fall apart.

Melanie Hoult is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm, with a love for installation and ceramics. She is often drawn to working with natural materials and is passionate about social justice, the environment and our place in it.

Melanie is a member of the recently formed SLOWPOKE - Slow Power Collective and sells functional ceramics as Night Forest Studio.

She has spent the last 20-ish years holding on to (and refusing to let go of) her desire to make art while life had other ideas.