Julia Holderness features in Enmeshed: Feminist Modes of Information Sharing at the Ashburton Art Gallery

Julia Holderness has work featured in the new exhibition Enmeshed: Feminist Modes of Information Sharing at the Ashburton Art Gallery, Hakatere, Canterbury.

'To be ‘enmeshed’ is to be entangled or immersed. Mesh itself can also be a knitted or woven textile, or an interwoven network. In this exhibition, mesh represents a non-chronological, non-linear mode of information sharing.' - Jenny Partington

In Enmeshed, artists Julia Holderness, Areez Katki, Erica van Zon, Ana Iti, and Claudia Kogachi each reframe narratives, whether they be personal, cultural, or archival. Stories are rewritten from new perspectives, engaging with plurality, temporality, and embodiment – principles that reject a chronological or linear approach. Archival truths are questioned, and personal histories are entwined with fictions. Engaging with narratives born from archives, films, popular culture and personal histories, these artists retell their chosen stories from a feminist perspective. They critique the frameworks taken for granted as being ‘neutral’ by challenging prescribed structures of organising knowledge to alter how people discover, engage with and interpret narratives.

Holderness presents a mixed media vitrine installation, titled 'Material from the exhibition 'Florence & Florence: Other Textile Histories', 2018, and ‘To Florence from Me’ an audio work from 2024, both of which were part of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki exhibition Modern Women: Flight of Time (2024-2025).