Photographer and Publisher
2026
Exhibited in June 2026, as a part of “More to Come”, the Manchester School of Art Degree Show
Through Stuck // Habituation, Hollie Jayne Harrison continues to develop their work on mental health and wellbeing, seeking to control and contain the uncontainable - the non-linear and terrifying nature of the cycle that anxious thought gets stuck within, and the dramatic reinvention taken to break out of it.
The analogue image acts as representation, and a primary language during periods of struggle, both before and in the aftermath of intervention. With small enquiries challenging and documenting their daily lived experience, Harrison questions the uncomfortability of space, portrating snippers of the physical and emotional walls that she lives within, showcasing monotonous moments which mask overbearing anxiety.
Shaped by the space of the shower, a conflicting space for many who struggle with their mental health, the work provides a challenging place of sanctuary and self-regulation, whereby the goings on of the external are silences, before being reintroduced in a cacophony once the water is shut off.
I want to get better. I need to get better.
But being like this is comforting.