Nola Jade Holmes - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Focussed on nostalgia, Nola creates audio visuals to articulate both her own, and collective memory, drawn to the idea that memories can be selective, and her work questions the validity of recurring memories.
When recalling her own memories, she questions herself:
What do you remember?
Why?
Using layered imagery of familiar cultural references, Nola’s practice invites viewers to consider how technology both preserves and distorts the past. Memories are not static—they degrade, shift, and reassemble with time. She uses digital software to explore how we recall, reinterpret, and sometimes romanticize the past. Time becomes fluid—loops and glitches mimic the way memories surface and dissolve. She manipulates ai to her advantage, testing how new technology can be utilised to bring old memories to the surface. She seeks to evoke the hazy, often fragmented nature of remembering.
“What a privilege it is to yearn for your own memories.”
Horse.mp4
Music by Third Bloom
Words spoken by Bob the Builder
A culmination of archival videos that include horses. These allude to Holmes' childhood memories of her parents helping her out of a bad dream, described in the words spoken. The aim is to evoke a sense of personal and collective nostalgia.
