Remember when I made a statement of intent?
Well, today is the day! All my Art work is now hung up in Cafe Nova, on the main street of Gawler, a small town located in South Australia - in terms of capital cities, it is closest to Adelaide, and is sort of become part of the urban sprawl. Anyway, I digress.
Since most of you folk on Hive can't magic yourselves into Australia at any given moment, this post represents a virtual tour of the Art Work on display at the exhibition.
The exhibition is a part of the PACE Festival (Plaints Art and Culture Events) - and has a joint exhibition at the civic hall. My work that will be featured at that location is my "headliner" and the image that I think is the best one I have ever produced.
About the Artist and the Exhibition:
@holoz0r draws inspiration from the visual style and mythological symbolism of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. His practice explores the fragility and transience of human life. Informed by his Master’s Degree in Visual Art and Design, his thesis examined artistic representations of death, decay, and impermanence.
He is fascinated not only by the play of light across human form, but also by the philosophical implications of the image itself, particularly as discussed by Roland Barthes - how every photograph embodies both presence and loss, a distillation of time that inevitably gestures toward mortality.
@holoz0r is available for bespoke portraits and artistic collaborations. He enjoys on-location portraiture. He also uses his garage, as a studio. He is also available to photograph weddings.
The Oracle (On Display at the Civic Centre)
Size: 46x59cm
Greenie rode in my car on the way to the shoot venue, wearing that dress, and I was still finding bits of it for years after!
Then, the rest of the pieces will be at the Cafe. All the work was produced between 2019 and 2025! (Its been a long time between exhibitions for me!)
Works at the Venue
1: Ruin (2022)
Size: 31x39cm
I found the dress in an opshop. We found the ruined building by the side of the road. The sun was setting, making the world out the non-existent window look like an oil painting. I lit the image with flash. The "ruin" isn't there anymore. The photo is. Holly is still around, and she's featured heavily in my work - and has become a good friend over the years.
2: Whim (2020)
Size: 31x39cm
Pre-raphaelite whimsy is all I have to say about this one. I directed the expression and the pose, and the closed fist around the plant being in the darkness, while the vulnerable arm being in the light, and the gaze sky-ward suggests at someone contemplating their mortality.
3: Wilt (2024)
Size: 31x39cm
Photographed with my friend (and fellow artist), Erin - in my garage - this served as a test to see if my garage at my new home would be viable as a studio. We wanted to do something with dying flowers, so we found some.
4: Shroud (2020)
Size: 31x39cm
Inspired by Giovanni Strazza's The Veiled Virgin, this image seeks to try and replicate the sculpture. It is no where near on the same level, but being trapped within "a veil" , a "shroud" or some other gossamer fabric (and displaying technical skill at layers of focus) is what I wanted to achieve with this image. That, and posing hands. Hands are SO important in photographic images and painting.
5: Entwine (2021)
Size: 43x54cm
This image was one of those images that took a happy accident. The two models featured (sisters) were posing organically, and I caught this moment in the forest. @mattclarke held the light for this image, so one other member of this chain was involved in the production of this.
6: Still (2020)
Size: 43x54cm
The moment before. This too, wanted for elaborate drapery of cloth, but the imperfection of creases and crinkles is something that is captured by photography so easily. It adds to the sense of suspense hanging in the darkness. Where is that knife going?
7: Beyond the Blade (2020)
Size: 46x59cm
This image was commissioned for a local print magazine. One more image from that shoot makes its way into this exhibition. Holly and I were given free reign to interpret the prompt "Fantasy". We found a location, we got some props, we drove around a rally (no hive rally car) in the Adelaide Hills, and it was freezing. We got the images though. A woman, looking out at what may come for her. Royalty, or a princess, or some such. There's narrative in her expression.
8: Queen (2020)
Size: 31x39cm
No, this image isn't upside down. You're upside down. Queen is a story about an ice queen. Her hands and expression tell the story.
9: Wet (2024)
Size: 31x39cm
Since I can't reproduce Millais' Ophelia, I call this image a cross between that, and the work of Australian Artist Rosemary Liang, who produced an excellent series of photographs of brides falling from the sky, with shotgun wounds on the wedding gowns they are clad in. The dress here, was obtained from a 2nd hand store, and Holly, a former swim instructor, relished the chance to do some underwater modelling.
10: Shimmer (2019)
Size: 31x39cm
This is a composite of three images. This was shot in my lounge room at my old house. Photography captures time, but it is the moments between moments, and the blending of them, almost in a futurist sense, that I am interested in through this image, while at the same time, showing hope, worry, violence, and uncertainty, all suggested through different faces and hands.
11: Other (Self Portrait) (2025)
Size: 31x39cm
Me. A self portrait.
12: Un (2025)
Size: 31x39cm
Part of the "postcards of the night" series I posted on this very chain recently. References the myth of Narcissus, but with added tremor and turmoil.
13: Contemplate (2019)
Size: 31x39cm
A typical pre-raphaelite style portrait. A woman thinking. Bree sat down for a break during our photoshoot, I sat on the ground nearby, and even while she was having a break, with her lovely flower crown) - and hayfever, I still insisted that I capture this. The light was too good.
14: Fantasy (2020)
Size: 43x63cm
You've probably seen this one before, too :) Another from the same shoot as "Beyond the Blade" - a lovely location, and a little bit of hope for the future in her gaze heading out of frame, with nature reclaiming the world around her.
That's it!
I'm so excited and pleased to have this exhibition in real life, and to be able to share with you all my best images from the last six or so years, all of them produced thanks to my other contributions on HIVE, and produced with the intent to publish them on HIVE!
I have ideas for more work, and hopefully this show drums up interest with locals so that I can do more stuff like this - and hopefully, more often.
Work in the Exhibition Space!
Which was your favourite image?
If you'd like a high res version of any of these to print and have in your space - just transfer me 15HBD with a memo including the number or name(s) of the pieces, and find me on discord and I can get you the file! This gives you the ability to print them at any size!
All the works are available for sale at the physical exhibition framed, or, if sold, as a print.