Robert Hollingworth
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| Born |
Robert James Hollingworth Lorne, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | RMIT University |
| Known for | Visual Arts, Literary Works |
| Website | www |
Robert Hollingworth is an Australian artist and writer.
Robert Hollingworth is an Australian artist and writer with an abiding interest in Australian history, environment, ecology, the natural sciences and nature in general. He now writes, paints and makes videoworks full-time.
Hollingworth was born at Lorne, Victoria. His parents bought 40 hectares of ocean-front land in 1947, and later, his father built White Gables[1], one of the first concrete-poured houses (a concept first suggested by Thomas Edison in 1908), the roofing tiles having been made in his father's tile factory. This imposing double storey residence was destroyed in the Ash Wednesday bushfires [2] and the farmland today accommodates some eighty modern dwellings.
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His family eventually settled at Anglesea, Victoria and Hollingworth went on to complete a four-year Diploma of Art at the Gordon Technical College, Geelong. He subsequently founded the Geelong Fine Art Studios, a private art school, which he operated from 1977-1984. During this time he was Vice President of the Geelong Art Gallery, and co-founder of Artery, an artist-run gallery in Geelong. He moved to Melbourne in 1989 and subsequently became a teacher/lecturer at various public institutions including RMIT University from 1996-2001. He now divides his time between his inner-city residence and a mountain retreat in Central Victoria.
Hollingworth is primarily a painter and video artist. He has held more than thirty exhibitions, mostly in Australia, but also USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other art awards he has won the Sulman Prize 1990, the Castlemaine Drawing Prize 1994 and the Mount Buller Art Prize 2008. His work is held in many Australian public art collections. He is represented by commercial galleries in Melbourne and Sydney.
"Hollingworth's vast paintings of astral planes and planetary systems have long offset their basis in meticulous research ... While seemingly scientific in detail and subject matter, they are in fact hypothetical-imagined spacescapes that deal with the universe's place in our collective psychology."
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