Holly Hendry participates in 'Baltic Open Submission'

This group exhibition platforms the work of North-East based creatives and self-taught hobbyists alongside established contemporary artists.

Holly Hendry's 'Exhaust'd' is one of the works exhibited. Hendry’s sculptures and installations are concerned with what lives beneath the surface, from hidden underground spaces to the interior workings of the body. Drawing playful attention to its appropriated parts, ‘Exhaust’d’ is made from steel pipes (used in car and motorcycle exhausts) alongside hand-blown glass shapes and a cast metal ear. “All of these elements relate to bodily or mechanical outputs and inputs;” Hendry writes: “breath taking shape by being blown through molten glass, the ear's intake of sounds, engine outputs of energy and fumes.” Ripe with expression, the work challenges our perception of the neat distinction between our physical bodies, emotions and mechanisation.