Nick Hollo b. 1949

Also known as Nicholas Michael Hollo
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist
Nick Hollo is a Hungarian-born urban designer, architect and artist, whose daily activities include sketching Sydney's harbour and coastline in oil pastels.
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Citations

  • CAA/RAIA (1983), 'Quay Visions : A Publication for the CAA/RAIA Conference, 13-17 June 1983’, North Sydney: NSW Chapter, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, This publication has numerous architects’ visions for Circular Quay, including one from Hollo.

    http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2319888?lookfor=title:(quay%20visions)&offset=1&max=2

  • (2001), 'Sites unseen : exploring the future of Trust lands on Sydney Harbour’, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Mosman, N.S.W., this was an an exhibition on planning ideas at City Exhibition Space, Customs House, Circular Quay from 26 May to 2 September 2001. It includes Nick Hollo’s oil pastels.

  • Bailey, Geoff, et al (2005), 'Sitelines : aspects of Sydney Harbour : a collection of essays celebrating Sydney Harbour, ranging from the long view to the personal, these passionate and informed perspectives tell the story of the Harbour and its foreshores’, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Sydney, Nick Hollo’s oil pastels were used to illustrate written contributions on the Trust’s planning ideas by: Geoff Bailey 'Foreword’; Tim Flannery,'The sandstone city’; David Marr, 'Water views’; Tom Uren, 'Opportunities worthy of her setting’; Geoffrey Blainey, 'The seven lives of Sydney Harbour’; Elizabeth Farrelly, 'Pipedreaming the harbour (a work in progress)’; Gordon Briscoe, 'Change in Weerong from pre-contact to the present : a Carrahdigang and Camerraygang perspective’; and Patrick Fletcher 'Sydney Harbour : place and mythology’.

  • Interim Sydney Harbour FederationTrust (2000), 'Reflections on a Maritime City: An Appreciation of the Trust Lands on Sydney Harbour’, The Trust, Mosman, NSW, The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust was only formally established later in 2001. Contributors to the publication included Nick Hollo, Richard Le Plastrier, Rod Simpson, Geoff Bailey, Bob Clark and Jane Silcock.

  • Hollo, Nick (2008), 'Warm house cool house: inspirational designs for low-energy housing’, UNSW Press, Sydney, (2nd edition).

  • 'Interview with artist, October 2008, January 2009’.

See also

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Related stub people
  • Helen Wilson (spouse of)
  • Bianca Hollo (parent of)
  • Emma Hollo (parent of)
Related stub person groups
  • Australian Architectural Association (associate of)
  • Historic Houses Trust (associate of)
  • MSJ Keys Young Planners (associate of)
  • Sydney Harbour Federation Trust (associate of)
Related collections
  • private collections (collected in)
  • Wylie's Baths, Coogee (collected in)
  • Historic Houses Trust (members' room) (collected in)
  • Australian Public Service Commission, Canberra (collected in)
  • Sydney City Council, Sydney (collected in)
  • Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra (collected in)
  • Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Sydney (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • 1999, awarded Excellence on the Waterfront from the Waterfront Centre, Washington DC (received)
  • Prize - Gateway for Circular Quay (received)
Related events
  • The Nature of Manly (exhibited at)
  • Malabar to Manly (exhibited at)
  • Exhibition of Coastal Contrasts (exhibited at)
  • The Glow of Sandstone at Parsley Bay: Recent Oil Pastels by Nick Hollo, From Bondi to Balmoral (exhibited at)
  • In the Swim: Recent Oil pastels by Nick Hollo Between Wiley's Baths, Coogee and Nielsen Park (exhibited at)
  • Currimundi: Recent Oil Pastels by Nick Hollo, Sydney and the Sunshine Coast (exhibited at)
  • Drawing along the way: Sydney Harbour, Hawkesbury, Bronte, Clovelly (exhibited at)
  • Artists Views: familiar vantage points revisited (exhibited at)
  • Different Waters (exhibited at)
  • Bondi to Coogee: some beaches, cliffs and headlands (exhibited at)
  • 'Bronte Bus Stop - Can't be bothered to go to work': Recent Works by Nick Hollo (exhibited at)
  • Good Morning!: Recent Oil Pastels by Nick Hollo, Many places between home and work (exhibited at)
  • Harbour Views (exhibited at)