Hollie

visual artists
Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

Hollie, Rapsody, acrylic, paper, wire, 121 x 60 cm, 2024

Hollie first came to Coochiemudlo Island in 2012, by happy accident. With each day over the years since, she has become deeply immersed in the beauty and quietude of her tiny island haven.

From childhood through to art college, professional arts practice, teaching art, and retirement, art-making has been a central focus in Hollie’s life. Her days of working long hours bent over sawhorses, power tools in hand, are firmly behind her. Hollie now relishes the opportunity of working with lightweight, found materials such as paper and recycled cardboard. She ‘makes’ for the pleasure of invention rather than the commercial art market, enjoying the ease and grace of exhibiting her work on the island through the Curlew Gallery.

Referring to herself as a maker of odd objects, Hollie endeavors to give three-dimensional form and voice to ongoing themes of life: growth, hope and renewal.

Curlew Artisan Gallery and Ross Street Gallery on Coochiemudlo Island open 10am – 2pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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