Olivia Rees Welsh, b. 1990

Overview

Olivia Rees, currently residing in Bath, is a Welsh visual artist whose work delves into the intricate relationships within the vibrant materiality of earthly ecology. She is keen on revealing the dynamic materiality of the natural world and aims to shift the focus away from human-centric perspectives to explore a more open, plural and complex relationships in nature. She seeks an artistic exploration towards the agentive and discursive ability of all material beings, showcasing the ongoing process of interconnectedness and liveliness of matter.

 

In this discourse, through the medium of ceramics, physical, temporal, malleable and unpredictable, clay radiating as a material agency, she expresses a wide array of material relationships.  This characteristic allows her to delve into more expansive connections.

 

In her recent body of work, she examines the intricate overlaps, entanglements, superimpositions, and fields of tension between nature, matter, and material culture. Through sculptural compositions, she challenges viewers to perceive and reconsider the boundaries between the natural and the constructed, inviting them to contemplate their understanding of the fluidity and complexity of material relationships.

Biography

Education

 

2023                 Contemporary Arts Practice B.A. (Hons), Bath Spa University

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2024                        TINCT, Ruup & Form, London

2023                        Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Artspace, Bath

2023                        Wales Contemporary, The Waterfront Gallery, Pembrokeshire

2023                        Aquae Sulis, OXO Tower, London

2022                        GRWP, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Milsom Place, Bath,

2022                        Origins, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath and the Lifeboat Studio, Porthleven

2022                        Death of An Object, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath

2021                        In the Meanwhile, Milsom Street Gallery, Bath

 

 

            

Residencies

 

2023/24                Studio Residency, EMERGE, Bath

2022                        La Meridiana, International School of Ceramics, Tuscany, Italy

2022                        The Lifeboat Studio, Porthleven, Cornwall

 

 

 

Awards and Sponsorships

 

2023                        Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Development Grant

2023                        ‘Highly Commended’ Bath Open Art Prize

2022                        Full Scholarship Award, The Porthleven Prize

2021                        'Outstanding Academic Achievement' Bath School of Art, Vice Chancellor's

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