Daniel Hollier was born in Canberra, 1979. Hollier studied at the National Art School, Sydney and in 2009, completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons).
Since graduating, Hollier has exhibited in artist-run-initiatives in Sydney, including Sydney Non-Objective (SNO) and MOP Projects, where he recently curated the group exhibition Lesser Abstraction, 2010. In the same year Daniel began exhibiting with Liverpool St Gallery, with his first solo exhibition, Between the Imaginary and the Real (2010). Following this, he has held regular solo exhibitions in Sydney including Native Ou Non , Sydney Non-Objective (SNO), Sydney (2011) and Shape shifter, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney (2012).
Daniel began participating in group exhibitions in 2006, exhibiting work at the Belconnen Art Gallery, Canberra. Since then, he has continued to participate in group shows, awards and prizes throughout Australia, including; SNO 50, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney (2009), Bucket, Mop Projects, Sydney (2009), Big Thoughts, Fraser Studio Residency Exhibition (2010), Artspace, Sydney (2010), Welcome, Fraser Studio Projects, Queen Street Studios, Sydney (2011), Origins, William Wright Projects, Sydney (2011) and twice at the Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship in (2010) & (2011).
Using mixed media of acrylic, gouache and spray enamel on linen and polyester, Daniel Hollier’s art is informed by chance discoveries and the experience of his everyday surroundings. His shaped canvases take their forms from found objects and become an exploration of painting; surface, support, colour, shape and the experience of making. By shaping the canvas, Hollier removes painting from the conventional frame of the rectangle, questioning the notion of painting as object. This allows the paintings to appear both wrong and right as it sets out to contradict and undermine both itself and the work that has come before. Harmony is not the goal, but rather a by-product of a method that involves a 'Sisyphean’ diligence to taping and repainting. Holliers’s work embraces Daniels favourite quote by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown whose 1966 manifesto begins: “I am interested in Black and White and sometimes Grey, I am for both and or either…”
In 2011 Hollier was awarded a New Work Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts. Hollier was the recipient of the Queen Street Studio Residency Award at Fraser Studio Projects, 2009 and the Clitheroe Foundation Scholarship in 2008. Hollier was the recipient of the Storrier Onslow Cité de Paris Residency, 2010, which he undertook in early 2011, and was also a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship both in 2011 and in 2010 at Artspace, Sydney. His work is represented in the collection of Artbank as well as private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and Holland.
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- 2012
- Last updated:
- 2012
