What’s Up: Jennifer Mehigan
Jennifer Mehigan aka (of the) Holy/Blood is a prolific creative talent whose burgeoning body of work keeps morphing into new forms in increasingly fascinating ways. You only have to go back a couple of years and have a look at her burning house paintings to see how far and how rapidly it’s evolved.
I’m a massive fan. My iPhone is wrapped in one of her ‘digital paintings’ (on screen and on body). This idea of ‘digital painting’ is key to the bulk of her most recent work, in that it often flits between the digitally made and the hand crafted, with a type of momentum that seamlessly blurs the two.
Mehigan lists her nationality as Irish and is currently based in Singapore where she is studying, but her background isn’t nearly as simple to plot as that. Born in London to Irish parents, her family moved to Singapore when she was little (via a brief stint in Bahrain which was interrupted by the Gulf War). She spent some time in Sydney, studying and working in design, before deciding to return home to refocus via fine art.
Aside from her physical paintings and digital explorations, Mehigan has also been producing items that combine her fine art based practise with her background in design, in order to help fund self-initiated field trips, starting with San Francisco and later, New York.
You can purchase various wares, adorned with Mehigan’s ever-evolving motifs, online via her webshop [shop.jennifermehigan.com] or via Society6 [society6.com/oftheholyblood]. There’s also a monograph of Mehigan’s work to date via fledging publishing imprint E-presse, part of Enclave [enclave-store.com].
