Holly’s sticks and stones recreates her experiences as an adolescent growing up on a farm near Burra.

“To catch a Deane’s bus, branded you as coming from struggle town. Imagine catching the rattling bomb bus that traveled beyond struggle town. As a child, growing up on the land made you a target for name-calling and the butt of jokes regarding outdoor dunnies and having no power. Labeled the freckle farmer, I grew up with a slight complex about freckles and farm life. By the age of sixteen I was ungrateful about my surroundings, my view was that it was my parent’s choice to live out of town, not mine. What I saw back then as limitations to my freedom are now the exact things I embrace as my freedom. They say that with age comes wisdom.”

The exhibition opens at 6pm, Thursday 22nd July at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre and continues until 8th August, 2010.

sticks and stones will also be showing at the Loft Gallery in Bowral from Saturday 3rd March through 31st March, 2012.

The paper selected for the exhibition was Canson Infinity BFK Rives.