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Sigrid Holmwood

This website is the documentation of the practice based research for a PhD in Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  The research proposes to expand painting by addressing its materiality and circulation through the relationship between painting and the figure of the peasant.   Painting is expanded into the field of cultivation, the performance of pigment-making, as well as the paintings themselves. The choice of planting and re-appropriation of pigment-making technologies traces the colonial relationship between Europe and the Americas.

Plants and Planting

Lake Pigments

Mordanting-printing and dyeing

Sigrid Holmwood, ‘Re-imagining Peasant Painting,’ Chapter in Rurality Re-imagined: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things , ed. Ben Stringer, ORO Editions,  2018

Sigrid Holmwood, ‘Cultivating Colour: Making Maya Blue from Woad,’ article in Third Text Special Issue: The Wretched Earth, Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions, ed. Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, 32:2-3, 330-349, 2018

Sigrid Holmwood, ‘The Peasant Paints,’ Chapter in The Rural, Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, ed. Myvillages, MIT Press, 2019

‘Composition and Color of Maya Blue: Reexamination of Literature Data Based on the Dehydroindigo Model,’ Antonio Doménech-Carbó, Sigrid Holmwood, Francesca Di Turo, Noemí Montoya, Francisco Manuel Valle-Algarra, Howell G.M. Edwards, and María Teresa Doménech-Carbó,The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019 123 (1), 770-782DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08448