Holly Márie Parnell

Holly Márie Parnell

Holly Márie Parnell is an Irish/Canadian artist based between Wexford and Glasgow. Working in film and expanded cinema, her practice explores the ways we impart meaning and value through layers of authority and language. The work is built from personal encounters and is motivated by the subtle yet powerful truths of embodied knowledge and lived experience.

Cabbage, 2023

An intimate film made in collaboration with the filmmaker’s family, Cabbage reframes language, illuminating relationships of care at its centre. Bureaucratic violence, which can appear as gentle and bland, is contrasted with lived experience: the film centralises her brother’s writing (who is non-verbal and non-mobile) using eye tracking technology, and her mothers reflections to explore layers of power, and how to reclaim it within an ableist paradigm. The film takes place in the months leading up to an international move from Canada back home to Ireland – a country they had to leave a decade prior due to severe cuts in disability services.

Image: Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage, 2023; image courtesy of the artist.

Gallery: TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St, Galway
Dates: 4-19 November | Mon-Sun 12-6pm
Tickets: Free

Access: TULCA Gallery is a step-free venue, which has accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots located on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery. The film time  has a captioned and audio described version, played on loop. Seating is provided.