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Holly Block
2020
Holly Block is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on video, photography, installation and sculpture. Blocks’ practice pivots around questions about reality and in particular understanding the vibrational nature of reality, including imaginal reality and the vibrational charisma of objects. Her oeuvre has deployed reoccurring motifs of hair and hairlessness to explore notions of other, embodiment and representation, whilst her background in psychology and choreography inform her interest in the performance of gender and identity, seeking to reveal the instability of these states. Blocks most recent work explores the impact of technology on human behaviour and attempts to ask “what aspects of sex and romantic love will we inevitably transcend as we become posthuman?”.
Holly Block is mow studying her Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, and lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has had solo exhibitions at MARS gallery and Seventh Gallery, and has exhibited in Pleasure, 2019, RMIT gallery, Spring 1883 (MARS suite), Praxis 5, SaRang Building, Indonesia, Moving Images, Latrobe Regional Gallery, and has exhibited at George Paton Gallery, Trocadero Art Space (Melbourne), Melbourne Fringe Festival and Dirty Dozen. She was a recipient of the 2019 VCA ACCESS mentorship award, The Chin Chin Wall of Art Award 2019, SaRang building residency in Indonesia 2019, Maribrynong Council arts grant in 2013 and she established Tribe for Art, the women’s arts collective.
www.hollyblock.com.au
insta: hollyblockart
Holly Block is mow studying her Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, and lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has had solo exhibitions at MARS gallery and Seventh Gallery, and has exhibited in Pleasure, 2019, RMIT gallery, Spring 1883 (MARS suite), Praxis 5, SaRang Building, Indonesia, Moving Images, Latrobe Regional Gallery, and has exhibited at George Paton Gallery, Trocadero Art Space (Melbourne), Melbourne Fringe Festival and Dirty Dozen. She was a recipient of the 2019 VCA ACCESS mentorship award, The Chin Chin Wall of Art Award 2019, SaRang building residency in Indonesia 2019, Maribrynong Council arts grant in 2013 and she established Tribe for Art, the women’s arts collective.
www.hollyblock.com.au
insta: hollyblockart
2015
'As an emerging artist, I find myself compelled to explore and represent raw human states and emotions. My work spans many mediums from painting, film, sculpture to installation. But all my work tells the story of the human condition, of our fragility, our vulnerability. Often my work tells a very personal narrative, where I expose my own struggle and confusion, only to find that it is not only about me. It is about us.
As a meditation teacher I am keenly aware of our minds constant inner chatter, the monkey-mind that runs our lives from the inside. The work exploring this universal phenomenon begs for us to wake up and recognise what is delusion and what is reality, what is real and what is self-created.'
Holly Block
Contact: [email protected]
As a meditation teacher I am keenly aware of our minds constant inner chatter, the monkey-mind that runs our lives from the inside. The work exploring this universal phenomenon begs for us to wake up and recognise what is delusion and what is reality, what is real and what is self-created.'
Holly Block
Contact: [email protected]
I Is Another - March 10 2015