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"Endearing cabaret doyenne" i-D Magazine
"She is art" Londonist.com
"Lesbian Drag Icon" Xtra! Magazin

British queer female artist.
Mixed media artist (film/installation/photographer/performance), showgirl, DJ and Mistress of Ceremonies.

My artistic intention is to blur the boundaries between both the avant-garde and mass entertainment, pop culture and the underground. Indulging those who worship at the altar of contemporary art and at the bowels of mass media.

Following time in the British Army, I realised my future lay as a visual artist. After studying photography to degree level and moving to Vienna, I developed the performative ‘Drag Goddess’ or ‘Tranny with a Fanny‘ character. Influenced by the Blake Edwards film Victor/Victoria and Gilbert and George’s notion of living sculpture, I adopt the guise of a drag queen in a genetically female body, reclaiming over exaggerated codes of femininity to the female form.
This guise has been performed extensively in the UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Turkey and New York.
Upon returning to the UK, I undertook a Fine Art Masters degree at Central St Martins. Previous works investigate sexuality and gender with more recent projects exploring personal history and biography utilising video, performance, photography and installation.

Exhibitions

2009 Everything Must Belong - Lauderdale House - London, UK
2009 Ru Paul's Drag Race Exhibition - World of Wonder Gallery - Hollywood, USA
2008 Envelope/Content - Wolstenholme Projects - Liverpool, UK
2008 MA Fine Art Central St Martins - London, UK
2008 This Constant Cracking of the Surface - The Bargehouse - London, UK
2008 Lift and Separate - V&A Museum - London, UK
2007 Left of Centre - Circus - London, UK
2006 1000 Degrees North - London, UK (and on tour internationally)
2004 It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It (Solo Show) - Vienna, AT
2002 Replica - Vienna, AT
2001 Curwen Gallery - London, UK
2001 Castlefield Gallery - Manchester, UK

QX Magazine Interview
g3 Magazine Article

DJ
DJing for around 15 years, not just another tranny playing CDs. Sets are as varied as my taste in wigs; focusing on electro, classic disco, house and trashy

DJ & Performance References
(* Repeat ** Resident)
Clubs
(Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, New York and UK)
333, 93 Feet East*, All You Can Eat* Afterworx*, Area, Asylum* Babu*, Bang Bang Club, Beluga*, Bastard*, Beach Blanket Babylon*, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club*, Bird Club**, Bistrotheque*, Bootie NYC, Bootleg Bahle, Bungalow 8, Button Down Disco, Casino (@ The Empire), Cafe de Paris, Club Hochriegel*, Club Myra, The Cock, Dalston Superstore **, Duckie, EGG , Empire*, Energaytics, Film Noir, Fledermaus, FOR3IGN!, Garden Club*, Gay Bingo*, Heaven (UK), Heaven (Vienna)*, Horse Meat Disco, Hot Sex**, I Love This Song**, Kashpoint*, Kentish Town Village Fete, Kitzbuel Clubbing Tenne, Lenox, Lürzer Alm*, The Macbeth*, Mash Club, Melange, Ministry of Sound*, Moulin Rouge*, MTV-Fashion Days, Nachtschicht, Naked Zoo, Naughty But Nice, N-Pir*, Nude*, NYC Downlow, Pervienne, Pirate Club, Pleasure*, Punk*, Remembar, Ronacher Theatre, Shadow Lounge, Shoot!, Sliders*, Slurp, Smash N Grab*, Soho Revue*, South Central, The Spitz, Studio Neon*, Super Model, Think Pink, Together, Trade, Trannyshack*, Turnmills*, Uber*, Underconstruction*, Vienna Regenbogen Ball*, Volksgarten*, Walk The Night, W.O.N*, WUK

Events
Alternative Holidays, Bistrotheque Drag Ball, Coco Song Fashion Show, Deolite at Royal Opera House, Dirty Red Ball, GFest, Glastonbury Festival*, I.C.A., Liza with a Z Revue, Lovebox Festival*, Oxjam, Pride 10 year Anniversary Event - Vienna, Red Death Late Nights (Punch Drunk), Sing Star Extravaganza, Tate Moss, Tranny Talent, True Grit Village Fete, Update (Hair Show), Vauxhall is Gurning - Vogue Ball, V&A Late:Collaborate - Victoria and Albert Museum, Vienna Life Ball*

Music and Miscellaneous
Live sets on Resonance FM, BBC Radio London and Radio Cafe in Hungary
Vocalist on Minty (Leigh Bowery's infamous band) - Its a game Part2
E-Jitz's 'Two Magdelene Fuckers' (Hideaway) and video for the Trannyshack UK album
Cover of Depeche Mode's 'World in my Eyes' for the remixed 'Violated' album
Ain't Nothing (Junior Freak feat Holestar) on Baccarra:Music
Winner - John Waters Homage - HMD Vogue Ball 2006
Winner - Mr Trannyshack 2007
Winner - Singstar - Cafe de Paris 2007
Runner up - Bistrotheque 'Tranny Talent' 2007
Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Suppositori Spellings 'Hannibal The Cannibal - The Musical
Snow White in Bistrotheque's 2007 Pantomime (directed by Jonny Woo)

Flyers and press

Performance
The Insanity of Modern Celebrity (20 min (and 5 min edited version) lip synch)
The Show (Inter-view 1) (25 min performance and mixed media)
Unbearabollocks (10 min S&M themed)
Unexpose (120 min audio visual and performance)
Heartbreak and Absolution (10 min live vocal)
Lift and Separate (15 min ensemble piece performed at the V&A Museum)
Deluded (30 min audio visual and performance)

Insanity of Modern Celebrity (Video Version)

Image from "Unbearabollocks"

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Contact holestar@gmail.com
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