ACCOUNTABILITY

ALEX HOLLAND

Accountability is a series of re-imagined scenarios. For Holland, school was a time of fun interactions between friends and discovering his passions for visual art. However, it wasn’t all just that. Coming from a background of privilege he was able to attend an exceptional English public school. Here he experienced behaviours that he has come to see were normalized then but unacceptable now. In this class context, coupled with the lack of awareness that is indicative of childhood, a spotlight is placed on the bullying that inevitably takes place, targeted especially at those slightly outside any perceived norms. In these studio images Holland takes on the role of all players in these carefully constructed tableaux.