David Art Wales Studio, Darlinghurst (2026)

25/05/2026

On Saturday we installed It’s the Little Things at Holeywood.

As we chose each artwork over the two-week submission period, and I packed them into waterproof tubs, assuming we had maybe 50 artists total.

Ten hours of unpacking, cataloguing (thanks to the heroic ) and hanging later, we discovered we were very wrong.

There are now OVER 100 ARTISTS in the exhibition.

As my mum would say: “Hell’s bells.”

Still more to do, but somehow we’re on schedule for the opening: Sat 30 May, 6–8pm, Holeywood at

Coinciding with the × Street Fair on Foster Street. Come say hi & get some culture into ya.

20/05/2026

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.

I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 reasons:

1 I was bored.

2 I was tired of making art that felt useless and wanted to make something functional.

3 I was lonely and hoped it’d help me make friends.

So I spent the past two years slowly transforming the hotel’s old smokers’ lounge, which had become a graveyard of broken furniture, into a piece of art that’s a place to make & show art.

If you want to see the result, the opening of Holeywood’s first ever show is 30 May, 6–8pm (the same night Vivid takes over the neighborhood).

Or drop by over the two weeks that follow, Tues–Sat, 6–8pm.

Cheers,

20/05/2026

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.

I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 reasons:

1 I was bored.

2 I was tired of making art that felt useless and wanted to make something functional.

3 I was lonely and hoped it’d help me make friends.

So I spent the past two years slowly transforming the hotel’s old smokers’ lounge, which had become a graveyard of broken furniture, into a piece of art that’s a place to make & show art.

If you want to see the result, the opening of Holeywood’s first ever show is 30 May, 6–8pm (the same night Vivid takes over the neighborhood).

Or drop by over the two weeks that follow, Tues–Sat, 6–8pm.

Cheers,

12/05/2026

May 30 is a big one this year. Our opening is from 6-8pm but from 4pm to 4am, Foster Street becomes a street fair for Vivid x Hollywood Quarter, with food trucks, workshops, family-friendly entertainment, live performances, and of the spectacular lights of Vivid Sydney.

11/05/2026

I should’ve entered this portrait in the into the this year but I was too busy organizing the group show at (which opens 30 May). It’s our accountant, who I call Mr. Maraschino because he likes those cherries in his cocktails.

09/05/2026

I will be at the today (Sat 9 May) from 4 to 5 PM receiving accepted pieces for the inaugural Holeywood group show It’s the Little Things, and taking submissions for new work. Come by for a cold one and bring your masterpiece with you!

16/02/2026

On Sat night I held a sneak preview of Holeywood, the little art space I’ve been quietly (& slowly) building out the back of the for the past 18 months.

For decades the tiny space was originally the pub’s smokers’ lounge, but as people started puffing outside instead, it became a hidden graveyard for broken furniture.

Then, with the owner’s blessing and the help of collaborators, I transformed it into Holeywood: an art gallery and studio clad entirely in pegboard.

Holeywood is a piece of art in which to create & show art. A gallery in a pub. A holey space.

Thank you to everyone who came by for a squizz & a cold one. Our first group show is brewing. If you’d like your work to be considered, pls DM me.

Big shout-out to my collaborators: Geoffrey of , Henry / & .mullen.artist
Also to & the awesome HH staff.

22/12/2025

Life is short. Give art.

03/12/2025

What is the barrier to Barry being barrier?
Acrylic on acoustic felt
120 x 80cm
$800

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