{"id":2193,"date":"2014-11-04T22:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:08:43","slug":"anna-hollings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/anna-hollings","title":{"rendered":"Anna Hollings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anna-hollings-cenotaph\"
\nCenotaph<\/em>
\n8.5″x10.2″; handmade collage: paper, glue; 2014<\/p>\n

Anna Hollings
\nWestport, New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

About making collage:<\/p>\n

I love the process of collage, it is peaceful, relaxing and rather hypnotic. Sometimes elements obviously belong together and so the collage reaches completion easily while others demand something more, I don\u2019t know what but I will know it when I see it, and that can take hours, or days of trawling through old books and magazines.<\/p>\n

I understand why the surrealists liked collage, it is mostly automatic and seems to evoke a mysterious, lost narrative, or a dialogue from the subconscious, or a half-remembered dream. Like me, they liked to play with juxtapositions of scale and subject, to surprise the mind and prompt another way of seeing. My favourites\u00a0are those that I don\u2019t have much say in making, it feels like they are making themselves using my hands and eyes. I like it when elements don\u2019t belong together, but look like they should.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had my first show in Nelson in 1989 and have been exhibiting in galleries throughout New Zealand at least every year. My mother is a painter and it always felt like something I was born to do. My preferred media is oil on canvas with subjects ranging from figurative through to landscape, but I also work in a variety of other media such as collage.\u00a0 I am mostly influenced by the post war surrealists and the early New Zealand moderns like Rita Angus, Edith Collier and Toss Woollaston, but I have many influences from contemporary art in general. I live on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/p>\n

2013 Thirteen New Works: Interspace Gallery – Westport
\n2012 Freerange Organic – North Art – Auckland
\n2011 HumanBeing – Satellite Gallery – Auckland
\n2008 Landshapes – Satellite Gallery – Auckland
\n2005 Survey – Tatton Gallery – Nelson
\n2004 Dreaming \u2013 Milford Galleries – Auckland
\n2003 Islands \u2013 Milford Galleries – Auckland
\n2002 Love Letters – Milford Galleries \u2013 Dunedin
\n2001 North New Work at Milford Galleries \u2013 Dunedin<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.annahollings.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"anna-hollings-tree-lines\"
\nTree Lines<\/em>
\n11.2″x8.2″; handmade collage: paper, glue; 2014<\/p>\n

\"anna-hollings-in-itself\"
\nIn Itself<\/em>
\n11″x8.5″; handmade collage: paper, glue; 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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