ABOUT
Holly Greaves is a multidisciplinary artist born in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia.
Greaves is interested in emotional ecologies. These are invisible ecosystems of emotion that are embedded within, and created by; people, places and objects.
An emotional ecology describes pools of cyclical affect. In other words, emotionally-charged relations and relationships between ‘things’ (events, bodies, places etc.).
This artists is drawn to these types of ‘vibes’, particularly when they present around notions sociological pecking orders, dreams, intra-actions, hauntings, bodily-memory (human and non-human), love, pain, and death. An ecology of this kind is immaterial, non-linear, delicate and intimate.
This artist uses illogical and lateral modes of investigation to research different types of emotional ecologies, to make their invisibility ‘seen’. Predominantly using at-hand materials, Greaves playfully incorporates unorthodox forms of data collection to describe these cycles of affect.
CV
Exhibitions
2023 | Intimate Data Collectors, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston
Folly, Simple Cider, Bickerstaff Blizzard & The Underground, Hobart
Betwixt & Bewildered Things, Hobart Brewing Co., Hobart
2022 | Images of Tasmania, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Figuratively Speaking, Simple Complex, Hobart
Graduate Show, School of Creative Arts & Media, Hobart
Platform I, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Taking Up Space: Emerging Tasmanian Women Sculptors, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny
2021 | Graduate Show, School of Creative Arts & Media, Hobart
Put Out More Flags, The Barracks at Willow Court, New Norfolk
Domicile, Long Gallery at The Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart
In II Minds, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Fields, Entrepôt Gallery, Hobart
Elevation Art Trail, Elevation, kunanyi / Mt. Wellington
2020 | Multiverse Art Trail, Multiverse - A Forest Gathering, Huon Valley
Inexplicit, The Ramp, Hobart
GROUNDED, The Ramp, Hobart
Fractangular Art Trail, Fractangular Gathering, Buckland
2019 | Panopticon III, Dark Mofo, Hobart
Education
2022 | Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2019-2021 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Commissions
2024 | In Memory of Chubby - private mural commission, Manisa, Turkey
Rat Nest - mural commission for EastSeven Hostel, Kollwitzkiez, Berlin
2023 | Coral - mural commission for Adart, Hobart
The Babies - mural commission for Simple Cider, Hobart
2022 | Life in the Brew Garden - mural artwork for Hobart Brewing Co., Hobart
Fermenters & Kegs - T-shirt design for Hobart Brewing Co., Hobart
Backyard Forest Dance - sculptural paintings for Multiverse 2022, Hobart
Awards
2022 | Admitted to the Dean’s Honour Roll in the College of Arts, UTAS, nipaluna/Hobart
Hatched Graduating Exhibition Finalist, Perth
2021 | Admitted to the Dean’s Honour Roll in the College of Arts, UTAS, nipaluna/Hobart
Bett Gallery Graduate Award, Hobart
Henry Jones Art Prize Finalist, Hobart
2020 | John Lajos Prize in Fine Arts, Hobart