His family eventually settled at Anglesea, Victoria and Hollingworth went on to complete a four-year Diploma of Art at the Gordon Technical College, Geelong.

"Hollingworth's vast paintings of astral planes and planetary systems have long offset their basis in meticulous research ...

While seemingly scientific in detail and subject matter, they are in fact hypothetical-imagined spacescapes that deal with the universe's place in our collective psychology.

This work attracted some interest on ABC Radio 774[4] This was followed by They called me The Wildman [5] 2008, which was shortlisted to five for the South Australian Premier's Literary Awards in 2010, won by David Malouf.

This work is an account of Henricke Nelsen's life, a 19th-century recluse in Australia and a contemporary of the bushranger, Ned Kelly.

"[6] "Hollingworth's sympathetic and vivid appropriation of the story, his gift for making it seem both the tale of an emigrant, an outsider, and one who immersed himself ... in the natural world of Australia, is an engaging and persuasive exercise in fact cum fiction.