Artist Spotlight: Olivia Boileau

“The analysis of repeated, domestic feminine trauma within mythical and religious narratives is the context basis behind Olivia’s practice.
Portraying women as destroyers, Olivia engages with the domestic notion of weaving evident within folklore and biblical myths to create tufted outcomes and prints. The reoccurring imagery and motifs within the works signify Olivia’s subjective experiences of disassociation, depicting each outcome as a sacred space. Quick with colour and slow with image, Olivia’s sacred spaces aim to create a collection of Heterotopias: a mirror of utopias as placeless places . The collection of utopias as placeless places visually reflects the feelings of dissociation, reflecting Olivia’s perception of sacred space as one place and the alternate perception of the viewer as the placeless place within the space, combining each perception to create a series of lords.”

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Combined Self Portrait, Acrylic paint

Company of the Wolf, Acrylic paint