Holestar

British gender bending queer WOMAN.
Multi media visual artist (photography/film/installation/performance), vocalist, DJ, Mistress of Ceremonies, promoter and Dominatrix
Questioning the use of the body, perceived notions of femininity, celebrity and pop culture, Holestar is an amalgamation of different things; an artist, drag goddess, live performer, promoter and DJ. She has appeared in art spaces, clubs and events all over Europe, New York and the UK, performing at events from Vienna’s Life Ball to Kashpoint, the V&A Museum to Glastonbury Festival.
Holestar’s intention is to blur the boundaries between the avant-garde and mass entertainment, pop culture and the underground.
While living and working in Vienna, Holestar’s art work was dealing with issues surrounding sex, sexuality and gender.
Exploring further and being inspired by the Blake Edwards film Victor/Victoria and not wanting to fall into an obvious gender swap ‘drag king’ role, after some experimentation, became the ’Tranny with a Fanny’.
At the Vienna Life Ball, Holestar met a DJ who asked her to talk dirty over his sets as an event host which was a perfect opportunity to workshop the idea in front of an audience.
While being paid in vodka, during an MC set, she began to sing improvised lyrics over the top and the rest is herstory.

Holestar moved onto performing live bootlegs (the art of taking an instrumental track and singing the lyrics of another over the top) from electro, pop, disco and rock.
She has since expanded on the drag goddess character by performing lip synchs, spoken word, conceptual pieces, acting and singing straight songs and has performed at different kinds of events from underground clubs to art, fashion and corporate events. Holestar has also worked extensively as a DJ, host and promoter.
Holestar is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Fine Art at Central St Martins.
The intention; to inject humour into art and make it accessible.
QX Magazine Interview
Music and Media
Live sets on Resonance FM, BBC Radio London and Radio Cafe in Hungary
Vocalist on the first Minty (Leigh Bowery’s infamous band) track in ten years - Its a game Part2
E-Jitz’s ’Two Magdelene Fuckers’ (Hideaway) and video for the Trannyshack UK album
Covered Depeche Mode’s ’World in my Eyes’ for the remixed ’Violated’ album
Ain’t Nothing (Junior Freak feat Holestar) on Baccarra:Music
Other music currently in production.
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Performance and DJ
93 Feet East, All You Can Eat, Alternative Holidays, Afterworx, Area, Asylum, Babu, Beluga, Bastard, Bistrotheque, Bistrotheque Drag Ball, Bootie, Bungalow 8, Button Down Disco, Cafe de Paris, Club Hochriegel, Club Myra, Coco Song (Fashion Show), Dirty Red Ball, Egg, Empire, Energaytics, Fledermaus, FOR3IGN!, Garden Club, Gay Bingo, Glastonbury Festival, Heaven (UK), Heaven (Vienna), Horse Meat Disco, Kashpoint, Kitzbuel Clubbing Tenne, Lenox, Lipsinkers, Lovebox Festival, Lürzer Alm, The Macbeth, Mash Club, Ministry of Sound, Moulin Rouge, MTV-Fashion Days, Nachtschicht, Naughty But Nice, N-Pir*, Nude, Oxjam, Pervienne, Pirate Club, Pleasure*, Punk, Red Death Late Nights (Punch Drunk), , Remembar, Ronacher Theatre, Shadow Lounge, Sliders, The Cock, Soho Revue, South Central, The Spitz, Studio Neon, Think Pink, Together, Trade, Trannyshack, Tranny Talent, True Grit Village Fete, Uber, Update (Hair Show), Vauxhall is Gurning - Vogue Ball, Vienna Life Ball, Vienna Regenbogen Anniversary, Volksgarten Walk The Night, White Line, V&A Late:Collaborate - Victoria and Albert Museum, W.O.N, WUK.
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