olive’s visual work has recently been focused on developing processes that are curious and enthusiastic about form and colour. She sees her works as diagrams: diagrams which point primarily to multiplicity of intention and interpretation.
Questioning our understanding of strict dichotomies, her works set out to walk tightropes of meaning, revelling in making connections between things which are seemingly contradictory.
This approach is intimately connected to real-world dynamics: abstraction is a response to the concrete, and vice versa.
She is particularly interested in using recycled, found, and secondhand materials in order to explore modes of creation which promote sustainability: imagining new futures which expand the horizons of the (im)possible.
