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 environmental temporalities. Holly uses fieldwork practices as accrued layers of observation. Followed by utilising the phatic relationship between: experienced ecological phenomena, physical or durational mark making and calcifying meaning with the written word; creating the posture of a polycentric 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— she seeks to examine ways in which artistic practices can encourage embodied understandings of self as collaborator within ecotonal sites.