Richard Holt is an independent writer, and visual and performance artist, often working at the interface between text, art and public space.
He has been involved in multi-arts project development and delivery, in artist-initiated, community and local government contexts for over two decades, with a particular focus on art in public spaces. He has also worked at various times as a manuscript development professional, editor, freelance curator and as an Arts Development Officer for local government.
He was a founder and coordinator of projects including Platform Artists Group and Sticky, and is currently a member of Spineless Wonders’ StoryDrop Collective.
He has held solo exhibitions at art spaces including West Space, Gertrude Contemporary and ParaSite (Hong Kong), and collaborative installations including at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. His Flashing the Square video project screened at the Federation Square screen for two Melbourne Writers Festivals.
His writing has appeared in collections including multiple National Flash Fiction Day and Spineless Wonders anthologies, Australian Love Poems (Inkerman & Blunt), and in journals including World Art and Art Monthly. His short story and microfiction collection, What You Might Find, was published by Spineless Wonders in 2018.
An occasional musician, over the past decade his practice has evolved to also encompass performance-based explorations of the interface between text, art and public space. He has designed and constructed a number of performable musical writing tools, including the hybrid typewriter/electric guitar, the guitarpwriter, which is often played by his performance persona, Walter Waite.
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