Holli McEntegart

Holli McEntegart (b NZ. 1980) is a Pākehā (Eire, Alba, England), interdisciplinary artist moving fluidly between social practice, video, performance, photography and text- based work. She received a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Photography in 2006 (Unitec, NZ), a one-year Masters of Fine Arts scholarship at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh, USA (2011), and a Masters of Arts (First Class Honors) from Auckland University of Technology (2013). In 2014 she was an Artist in Residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine (USA). She has trained and worked as a full spectrum doula in NYC, LA and now Aotearoa, approaching this mahi through the lens of social practice. After almost a decade living in the United States, Holli returned to Aotearoa NZ in 2020 and was awarded the 2021 Letting Space Public Arts Commission for, Inhabit - an ongoing participatory art project engaging traditions and patterns of care for birthing people, as these survive and morph through colonisation and migration.

Holli is a co-researcher on The Tīpuna Project, a creative community-based collaboration between Māori and Pākehā researchers, artists and activists in Aotearoa to experiment with the decolonial possibilities of communing with our Indigenous and settler ancestors. Now based in Tamaki Makaurau, her work has been performed and exhibited throughout the USA and Aotearoa.