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Sigrid holmwood biography

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          Sigrid Holmwood is a British/Swedish artist known for paintings that integrate and examine historical art practices.

        1. Sigrid Holmwood is a British/Swedish artist known for paintings that integrate and examine historical art practices.
        2. My research proposes to expand painting by addressing its materiality and circulation through the relationship between painting and the figure of the peasant.
        3. Life.
        4. Sigrid Holmwood (b) has a practice-based PhD in Art (“The Peasant Paints: expanding painting through planting and pigment-making”) from the.
        5. My work is specifically concerned with linking painting and agriculture, through my persona the 'Peasant Painter'.

          6. Sigrid Holmwood

          Sigrid Holmwood's MPhil/PhD Art research project

          The Peasant Paints: expanding painting through planting and pigment-making

          My research proposes to expand painting by addressing its materiality and circulation through the relationship between painting and the figure of the peasant.The figure of the peasant is important as she-who-must-be-excluded in order to construct modernity.

          This exclusion is both real and symbolic. In representing the peasant, the bourgeois subject constructs the self through what she is not, either denigrating the ‘backward’ peasants or romanticising the ‘old way of life’. Either way, in Western European thinking, the peasant is pushed into a distant past despite the millions of peasants currently in conflict with modernising projects around the world.

          Recently, the term ‘peasant’ has been reclaimed by campaigners, such as La Via Campesina, as a form of decolonial thinking (Mignolo) and activism (Morena), linking peasants and indigenous pe