HOLLY FALCONER : Technicolour Hymns

*EXTENSION TO EXHIBITION DATE*: The exhibition will now run until November 7th, weekdays 10am - 6pm.

Alisa Gallery & The Most Cake are proud to present :

Technicolour Hymns is Holly Falconer’s first solo exhibition, presenting a preview of projects completed over the last two years. The show will include snapshots of English women who disregard norms, odes to lone rangers stalking ground unfriendly to a decade that opened with a wedding celebrating a girl marrying her fairytale prince.

Inspired by clubs such as Boombox and Ponystep, for the past two years Holly has captured the east London lesbian scene at clubs including Dalston Superstore. The resulting snapshots, popping with punch-drunk colour, led her on to complete two further projects: London Girls (2010) and Duets (2010-2011), a series of images on female friendship and relationships. They quietly throng with the vivacity of their protagonists, just as the previewed works from "Asexuality" (2010 - 2011) set down their sitters' steadfast confidence in their identity.

Holly was born in Painswick, Gloucestershire in 1984. She works on commissions for magazines such as Rollacoaster and Diva, and is a co-founder of The Most Cake, an East London-based website for women. The product of a strong Christian background, Holly’s work focuses on the iconography of all that surrounds her: her friends, favourite bands and London, where she is now based. Inspired by church stained glass windows, her colour-drenched portraits have a myth-making quality to them – presenting individuals in all their raw glory.

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Press reviews : The Print Space + The Dj List + 1/1000 + Diva Mag + g3mag + Time out blog + Style Caster + The Most Cake + Foleffet (French) + Yagg (French)

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