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Pauline Hollyoak
Currently living and working in Melbourne
Education
Masters of Fine Arts, RMIT University (2014)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, RMIT University (2012)
Trade Certificate in Signwriting (1994)
Solo Exhibitions
lovED - Blackcat Gallery, Brunswick, melbourne, 2022
All That Glitters - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, Melbourne, 2021
Ung Drill - Five Walls, Footscray, Melbourne, 2019
Cacophony - Montsalvat Arts Centre, Eltham, Melbourne, 2019
Wanderlust - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor Melbourne, 2017
Superfluous - The Artruim, Bayside City Council, Melbourne, 2017
Pucker Up - Richmond Town hall, Richmond, 2017
Flocked Up - Black Cat Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne, 2016
Red Gallery - Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2016
Recent Works - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor Melbourne, 2016
Colour and Cacophony - Off the Kerb, Collingwood, 2015
Recent Works - Art at St Francis, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 2014
Recent Works - D11@Docklands, Melbourne, 2013
Form on Form 2 - Off the Kerb, Collingwood, 2013
Form on Form: Simulacrum at Play - Trocadero, Footscray, 2013
003 Mauve it Over - The Tree House, St Kilda, 2012
Cook Clean Consume - First Site Gallery RMIT, 2011
The Love of Colours - The University Club, University of Western Australia, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
Untitled 2022 - Traffic jam Galleries, Neutral Bay, NSW, 2022
Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial - West End Art Space, Melbourne, 2021
Made to Measure - Town Hall Gallery, 2019
Scavenged - BlackCat Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, 2019
Satellite Projects - 345 AC, Mont Albert, Melbourne, 2019
2018 Women’s Art Now - Yangpyeong Art Museum, South Korea, 2018
Colour Me Once - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2018
Colourspam - Westend Art Space, West Melbourne, 2017
The Polygon Project, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania, 2016
Immerse 2016, Knox City Council, Knox Private Hospital, 2016
Red Ball - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, 2016
Art In My Mouth 3 - Moosey Art, Norwich, UK, 2016
Chalk and Cheese - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, Melbourne, March 2016
Gelato - Traffic Jam Galleries, Neutral Bay, Sydney, 2016
Pattern - Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa, South Australia, 2016
Colour in Action - Kapitan Keling Mosque, Georgetown, Penang 2015
Homage - Food Court, Docklands, Melbourne, 2015
Exploration 15 - Flinders Lane Gallery, 2015
For the Love of Colour - Gallerysmith Project Space, North Melbourne, 2015
MFA Graduation Show - RMIT University, 2014
Real Delirium - N/A Space, 1/158 Lygon Street, Brunswick, 2014
Collaborations
Same Same but Different - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2018
Interchange: We're Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue - Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2013
Public Art Commissions
'Inside Out' The Basement, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn Town Hall, Melbourne
Commissioned by the City of Boroondara, 2016
(This project was supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Stronger Communities Programme)
Grants and Awards
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, finalist, 2017
Immerse 2016, Highly Commended, 2016
2013 RMIT Link Arts Funding, RMIT University (awarded August 2013)
2013 RMIT Link Arts Funding, RMIT University (awarded May 2013)
Residencies
Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Ireland 2020
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, 2020
Current
Monochrome, Vilomah,
Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, October 2022
Currently living and working in Melbourne
Education
Masters of Fine Arts, RMIT University (2014)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, RMIT University (2012)
Trade Certificate in Signwriting (1994)
Solo Exhibitions
lovED - Blackcat Gallery, Brunswick, melbourne, 2022
All That Glitters - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, Melbourne, 2021
Ung Drill - Five Walls, Footscray, Melbourne, 2019
Cacophony - Montsalvat Arts Centre, Eltham, Melbourne, 2019
Wanderlust - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor Melbourne, 2017
Superfluous - The Artruim, Bayside City Council, Melbourne, 2017
Pucker Up - Richmond Town hall, Richmond, 2017
Flocked Up - Black Cat Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne, 2016
Red Gallery - Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2016
Recent Works - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor Melbourne, 2016
Colour and Cacophony - Off the Kerb, Collingwood, 2015
Recent Works - Art at St Francis, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 2014
Recent Works - D11@Docklands, Melbourne, 2013
Form on Form 2 - Off the Kerb, Collingwood, 2013
Form on Form: Simulacrum at Play - Trocadero, Footscray, 2013
003 Mauve it Over - The Tree House, St Kilda, 2012
Cook Clean Consume - First Site Gallery RMIT, 2011
The Love of Colours - The University Club, University of Western Australia, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
Untitled 2022 - Traffic jam Galleries, Neutral Bay, NSW, 2022
Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial - West End Art Space, Melbourne, 2021
Made to Measure - Town Hall Gallery, 2019
Scavenged - BlackCat Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, 2019
Satellite Projects - 345 AC, Mont Albert, Melbourne, 2019
2018 Women’s Art Now - Yangpyeong Art Museum, South Korea, 2018
Colour Me Once - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2018
Colourspam - Westend Art Space, West Melbourne, 2017
The Polygon Project, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Tasmania, 2016
Immerse 2016, Knox City Council, Knox Private Hospital, 2016
Red Ball - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, 2016
Art In My Mouth 3 - Moosey Art, Norwich, UK, 2016
Chalk and Cheese - Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, Melbourne, March 2016
Gelato - Traffic Jam Galleries, Neutral Bay, Sydney, 2016
Pattern - Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa, South Australia, 2016
Colour in Action - Kapitan Keling Mosque, Georgetown, Penang 2015
Homage - Food Court, Docklands, Melbourne, 2015
Exploration 15 - Flinders Lane Gallery, 2015
For the Love of Colour - Gallerysmith Project Space, North Melbourne, 2015
MFA Graduation Show - RMIT University, 2014
Real Delirium - N/A Space, 1/158 Lygon Street, Brunswick, 2014
Collaborations
Same Same but Different - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, 2018
Interchange: We're Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue - Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2013
Public Art Commissions
'Inside Out' The Basement, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn Town Hall, Melbourne
Commissioned by the City of Boroondara, 2016
(This project was supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Stronger Communities Programme)
Grants and Awards
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, finalist, 2017
Immerse 2016, Highly Commended, 2016
2013 RMIT Link Arts Funding, RMIT University (awarded August 2013)
2013 RMIT Link Arts Funding, RMIT University (awarded May 2013)
Residencies
Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Ireland 2020
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, 2020
Current
Monochrome, Vilomah,
Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor, October 2022
