The Signature x Futures 29 - Drew Connor Hollad 01

Drew Connor Holland 
Nasha Gallery 

Drew Connor Holland is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. His work is about how we catalogue memories: in digital archives, in junk drawers, in our heads.

Holland sees his work as contemporary archaeology, collating our experiences of love and anxiety through the transformation of hoarded data. Using screenshots as his starting point, he corrodes each image with analogue reproduction processes; the finished pieces read as dilapidated visions of their original states. These works question how we value the data which surrounds us and act as an avatar for the myriad of reference points which we collate into our perception of ourselves.

Value, and the ambiguity of value, is a core element of Holland’s work. The cultural value of ancient detritus, such as combs, spoons, or graffiti, typically is appreciated before the emotional value to the persons which interacted with these things. He ascribes emotional value to his own archaeologies (receipts, love letters, drawings, medication) with the archaeologies of others (detritus from museum installations, reverses of canvasses, donated news clippings, human hair); in doing so prompting the audience to question how we perceive an object as a singular entity.

Holland’s recent solo exhibitions include Endings, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (2025); New Work, Nasha Gallery, Sydney (2026). Holland has been featured in group exhibitions at Ngununggula,