Bunny Butt - Lorraine Hollis

This portrait explores joy as resistance. Through softened brushwork and intimate scale, Lorraine captures the vulnerability, resilience, and emotional complexity of childhood experience. The work reflects her ongoing investigation into identity, neurodivergence, and the quiet emotional truths carried beneath outward expressions of happiness. Each artwork is painted on a stretched canvas, float framed in solid Tasmanian Oak. measuring 30x30cm. 
 
Artist Statement - This is for inclusion in the book project should you be selected. We reserve the right to edit this information.Lorraine Hollis is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Working across painting and mixed media, her practice explores emotional intensity, memory, and the psychological residue of lived experience. Her work often centres on children and solitary figures, capturing moments of internal tension, withdrawal, and quiet endurance. Drawing from a neurodivergent perspective, Hollis embraces instinctive mark-making, distortion, and layered surfaces to reflect the complexity of internal worlds. She resists polished resolution, allowing ambiguity, imperfection, and sensory weight to remain visible within the work. This approach mirrors an ongoing interest in how emotion is processed, contained, or deferred.
 
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Website
QuirkyCanvasCollective.com