“I became interested in the performative nature of women banging bin lids on the ground to warn of approaching soldiers and patrols. “

“I was fascinated by the transformative element of the mundane domestic object, and of its impact. When I was a kid, I  remember my dad telling me that ‘when they banged the bin lids, we used to break  their windows or their tellies with the  butt of our rifles.’ He told me this was  because the bin lids alerted the gunmen, and that the soldiers could get shot or caught in a riot. The same bin lids were also a signifier of home, back alleys with rows of metal bins were, and still are, an important feature of the aesthetics of the town that contributes to my own identity.”

Referencing this act of resistance, Holman created a collection of galvanised steel bin lids which held different aesthetic qualities depending on their source. Becoming more and more interested in the potential ambiguity of these objects and the transformative nature of the most mundane domestic objects, depending on geography. Imagining his own mother putting out the bins while, women her age were banging them on the street as my dad approached their houses. An ambiguity exists in this representation of conflict. Ugly objects are presented as beautiful. While the title infers the sound they made during this signifying act.