Olivia White
Visual Arts / Whyalla
Olivia White is a young emerging artist from the industrial town of Whyalla. She graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Communication in 2012. Since completing her studies she has continued to develop her own arts practice.
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Space between Spaces: Eclipse, Oil on Linen, 50 x 50cm -
Artists are the core of our business. We commissioned Whyalla artist and current Board member, Olivia White, to create artwork for our 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. Read her artistic statement on Page 11 of the plan. Image: 2. Country Arts SA Strategic Plan Commission, Community, Respect, Curiosity, Creativity, Accessibility, Collaboration, Artists and Arts-making, Oil on hand cut mounted oil paper, 82 x 102cm. Photograph by Grant Hancock. -
Fragmentary, Oil on hand cut oil paper and aluminium panel, 82 x 67cm -
Fragments of the Selfscape: Refractory, Oil on hand cut mounted oil paper, 31 x 42cm -
Space between Spaces: Tenacity, Oil on Linen, 50 x 50cm -
Fragments of the Selfscape: Rift, Oil on hand cut mounted oil paper, 31 x 42cm
Olivia’s work blends realism and distorted samplings from her environment; resulting in richly coloured oil paintings and dimensional painted paper cut works. The signature shapes recurring in this work are drawn from local topography and referred to as the fragments. While the figures in her work sit in spaces simultaneously the foreground and background creating empty or indefinable space. Her current practice recurrently connects to an exploration of escapism.