COLLAGISM

 Biography

Holly-Anne Buck / Collagism is an Australian artist whose practice centres around collage. It has taken form over a twenty-year practice through the media of video, musical composition, live performance and site specific interventions. Her work focuses on portraiture, particularly exploring ways to represent women in an emboldened fashion, exploring beauty, femininity, tenderness and strength.

Holly-Anne’s work has been exhibited and performed widely internationally including Art Athina International Art Fair (Athens, Greece), Tate Britain (London, UK), The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), Chinatown Soup (New York City, USA), The Vaults Gallery (London, UK), The Glamour Bar (Shanghai, China), Eyesore (Tokyo, Japan), Huerto Verde Roma (Mexico City, Mexico), Liverpool Love at Liverpool International Art Fair, (Liverpool UK), Scream Gallery (London, UK) among many others.

She has been featured in Arrested Motion, Hifructose, Design Week, The Wild Magazine, Vogue UK, HookedBlog, LDN Graffiti, Digital Arts Magazine, Desktop Magazine, Hunger, Run-Riot, Time Out London, The Evening Standard, FAD, We Heart, People of Print, The Glass Magazine, Beige Magazine, Speaker TV, Invisible made Visible, COMPLEX, VNA, Wall Street International, 1883 Digital, LivingETC Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, Bite Me Magazine and Self.Styled.  

As an artist and producer she worked with longtime collaborator Adam Milburn (RIP 2022) on their project Mink Engine which they formed whilst living for several years in Tokyo. Their work has been shown at art institutions, museums and festivals. They have toured the world performing in cities such as Shanghai, Tokyo, London and Berlin. The pair had their musical and video work shown on national television and played on national radio in Australia. Namely they were regulars on Kiss FM and had music featured on Ministry of Sound Radio.

Artist Residencies and Studios at Chisenhale Studios (London), Studio Voltaire (London), Chinatown Soup (New York), Lateral Geographies / 1883 Magazine (Online), Apiary Studios (London), Museo Maria-Eugenia Chellet (Mexico City), Sanctum Sactorum (New York), The Vestibule Gallery (London).

In 2023 Collagism Studios is based at The Nicholas Building, Melbourne Australia.

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Photo by Anthony Lycette Photography
Shot in Collagism Studios, London