Holly Nicholls is a Scotland-based artist with an interest in embodied mythologies concerning environmental and visual geographies. 

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Holly’s practice questions the role the visual might play in shaping ecological connection; experimenting to develop new ways of encountering human-nonhuman relationships through the lens of hydro-coastal site(s) and species. Informed by environmental humanities, she imagines more fluid and sensory understandings of self in relation to more-than-human temporalities. Holly uses fieldwork practices as accrued layers of observation alongside utilising the phatic relationship between environmental phenomena, mark making and the written word as the polycentric position of her practice. By engendering new modes of sensitivity between nature and culture, Holly seeks kinship through attending to the ways in which we differ yet repeat one another. By utilising more-than-human research: charting connections between the local and the global, the real and the metaphorical, the bodily and the out of body, nature and culture— she seeks to examine ways in which art can encourage understandings of self as collaborator within ecotonal sites.