Olive Juice, an artists profile
Bio...
Based in Christchurch New Zealand, Olive aka OJ is a multimedia artist who explores physical and spiritual phenomena .
Olive has exhibited at Space Academy in 2019 and graduated with a Bachelor of Design in Applied Visual Arts at Ara Institute of Canterbury in 2022. Olive covers a wide range of mediums that include sculpture, film, motion graphics, painting, performance and music. Through experimentation of organic and digital processes, she weaves these mediums with each other. Taking inspiration from nature, rave/festival culture and her own personal experiences, OJ's work fluctuates between broad universal ideas and raw personal expression.
Artists Statement...
I have always referred to nature to ground and inspire me, allowing natural phenomena and found materials to direct my creative flow and unfold spontaneity. I also take great inspiration from community, especially communities of rave culture and music festivals. Because I document our fluctuating existence here on earth and my ever-changing life, this influences my style in a way where it is never fully established just like nature and life itself. As you can see on this site, throughout the years my style changes dramatically and I still expect this to be the case in the future. This is something I embrace as change is something I celebrate in my life. Organic phenomena has always been a dominant subject in my photography, paintings, films and sculpture. One of the themes I have covered so far in my artistic practice is union between spirit and earth and this has occupied the earlier stages of my art journey (2016-2020). These works express surreal mythological forms which later on developed into abstract representations of the mysterious, underlying laws of existence. In 2021 I explored masculine archetypes and expressing its symbiotic relationship with feminine archetypes. Currently (2022), I am exploring the symbiotic relationship between the organic and the artificial, nature and technology to be specific.
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