Hollie Childe is a British artist, born in Shropshire. She is currently living in Lancaster studying Fine art and design at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. As a fine art artist she works predominantly in drawing and sculpture. 

 

Hollie's current work investigates the tension and division between the man-made and the natural. Stemming from a keen interest in the natural world, she creates works inspired by first-hand experiences with landscapes. Through creating sculptural forms and ritualistic patterns, she aims to 

explore natural forms and geological patterns by creating fabrications that are explicitly man-made. Combining the artificial and natural makes 

uncomfortable associations to materialism and commodification of the landscape and environment, disrupting the viewer’s expectations of the object.

 

Hollie’s sculptural forms allude the natural, while the implications of 

mundane artificial materials and bold colours make an intervention of the man-made. She acknowledges that any copies or reconstructions she attempts to make of natural forms will remain nothing more than a fabrication. The resulting work challenges notions of materialism by creating objects that are overtly fake and artificial, confronting the viewer with realisations of the commodification of the natural world.