Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth

Abstract Pointlessism from a pointless abstractor

"I sometimes feel I have something to say, I never want to communicate this."


taking doodling seriously, since the get go.
Born under a bad sign, next to a world record slag heap, not far from where Paul Hogan would launch his famous larger than life aussie character onto the world stage in the first Crocodile Dundee movie, this escaped aussie, this nomad who never travels but who has never lived in the same town for any length of time, this layer of legends this miser this nob-end this shine on you crazy nightmare.
The man known as and legend in his own lunchbox thinks he's so important that he gave up his life to hide away and paint until it means something.
It still seems to mean nothing, and the dogs seem pretty disappointed that we don't jet around the globe, taking in French poodles on the Champs Elisses, or at least riding through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in our hair.
At the age of twenty seven, he realised he needed to go to art college, with the warm self assurance of your normal child prodigy. Trouble was those years between said child prodigy and then. lost, lost, doing stupid things going to med school before flunking out in a championshi...

Queensland University of Technology
BA Visual Arts

Griffith University, Queensland College of Art

Maroochydore State High School '83

Personal Art tuition from Buderim Artist Vincent Hesse for a couple of years.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 ColourMeStupid, BART, Madrid, España
2013 Estamos Hechos de Polvos, Nando Argüelles Art Projects, Sotogrande, Cadiz, España
2012 Leaving Euro Vegas, no place like home productions, Madrid, España
2004 Estamos Hechos de Algo, Espacio Rita Luna, Madrid, España
1999 Spunk Mail, Smith and Stoneley on Stratton, Newstead ,QLD, Australia
1998 Old Money, New Money, Smith and Stoneley on Stratton
1996 Colonial Self, Zane’s Cafe, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Installations

2015 Cabalgando escaparates, Installation for Surge, teatro AZarte, calle San Marcos, Madrid, España
2015 Installation for Franqueados 0.15, Tienda Valle, calle San Bernardo, Madrid, España
2014 Installation for Franqueados 0.14, La Integral, calle del León, Madrid, España
2013 The Great Forgetting, Comestibles Valverde, Madrid, España
1998 Monument to a Spiral Kitty, Noosa, QLD, Australia
1998 16 Ways to Leave your Mother (There Must Be) Country, City Gallery, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1997 Ocker’s Razor, Micro Space, Metro Arts,Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1996 The Conflict Between Social Activism and Romantic Individualism, Metro Arts,Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Of the Difference Between Criminals and Out...