Holly Bates

EDUCATION

2022

Master of Film & Television (Narrative) , Victorian College of the Arts.

2015

Bachelor of fine arts, Visual Arts. (HONOURS), Queensland University of Technology. 

2014

Bachelor of fine arts, Visual Arts,  Queensland University of Technology.


AWARDS

2015

Deans List for Academic Excellence, Queensland University of Technology

Eyeline Prize for an Outstanding Visual Arts Graduate 


EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS

2022

House of Whoreship, MIFF Play, VCA Film & Television Graduate Season, Online 5th-18th, December Australia 

Hey Siri, can you die of a broken heart? Airspace Projects, Parallel Park, Sydney

2021

Mission Surge, Rising Festival, Parallel Park, Melbourne

Ambit, Metro Arts, Parallel Park,Brisbane

Networked, Outer space Ari, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Sunny Side Up, Parallel Park, Brisbane City

2020

Friendship as a Way of Life, UNSW Galleries, Parallel Park, Sydney

Loop, Metro Arts, Parallel Park, Brisbane

2019

Queer Economies, BUS projects, Parallel Park, Melbourne

HITCHED, Wyndham Culture Centre, Parallel Park, Melbourne

2018

Presence, BLINDSIDE Art Space, Brisbane

Rodeo Romance, STABLE Art Space, Brisbane

Artivisms Now, La Trobe Art Institute, Parallel Park, Bendigo

Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Parallel Park, Sydney

The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Extravagant Terms, Byron School of Art, Parallel Park, Mullumbimby

Into Another, Metro Arts, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Mission Surge, Night screen, Seventh Gallery, Parallel Park, Melbourne

Can you keep me occupied, Outer Space, Parallel Park, Brisbane

2017

The Melt Portrait Prize, Melt Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane

1 Degree, Brisbane Powerhouse,Parallel Park, Brisbane

In Arms, Muong Studio, Vietnam

In Time, Hobiennalle, Parallel Park, Hobart

Brave New Worlds, Jacobs Ladder, Curated by Kieran Swann, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Tunnel Vision, Parallel Park Open Studio, Brisbane

2016

Future Proof, Boxcopy contemporary art space, Brisbane

INDICATE, The Laundry Artspace

JANUS_01, Kunstbunker Ari, Brisbane

The Shape of Things to Come, The Block, QUT, Brisbane

Tandem, Cut Thumb ARI, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Home ground, Collaboration by Clutch Collective, Boxcopy, Brisbane

The Sex Positive Art Show, SX+, Prestige Bar, Parallel Park, Brisbane

BNE-ADL, FELT SPACE, Parallel Park, Perth

Shift 2, In Residence ARI, Parallel Park, Brisbane

Steven Bradbury Memorial Show, The Laundry Artspace, Parallel Park, Brisbane

#PRIZENOPRIZE, The Walls,Parallel Park, Gold Coast

2015

Before All Else, Visual Arts Honours Graduate Exhibition, QUT, Brisbane

Excerpts, The Block, QUT, Brisbane

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane

2014

Occupied, Metro Arts, Brisbane


PUBLICATIONS:

2018

Batting for the same team: Collaboration, negotiation and support in the works of Parallel Park by Sarah L. Thomson

un Magazine, Edition 12.2

2017

Eyeline Magazine, Issue #86

1 Degree// 2 Degrees, Edited by Remi Roehrs

2016

Mous. Magazine #2


OTHER

Gallery Co-Director & Founder of Clutch Collective, 2016-2017

2018

Performance in Progress, Residency West Space, Melbourne

Artist Relay, Boxcopy, Brisbane

2017

Artist Residency at Muong Studio, Vietnam 

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