To Tide You Over

Olczak, Susie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-5514 (2026) To Tide You Over. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

To Tide You Over , a solo presentation of new printmaking, sculpture and moving image by Susie Olczak. Exploring how water connects and transforms landscapes through both natural and engineered systems, the exhibition traces its movement across hidden and visible networks- from root systems and moisture bearing soils that quietly draw and redistribute moisture to infrastructures that manage flow and circulation. Olczak's research connects Chile's Atacama Desert with London's waterways, revealing how distant sites become linked through circulation and exchange. The nearby Brunel Tunnel – a pioneering Victorian underwater passage that became as much spectacle as infrastructure – exemplifies water's dual role in shaping both practical necessity and cultural imagination, a tension that runs throughout the exhibition. In the main gallery, Olczak's ceramic sculptures embody the physicality of their engineering, scratched and moulded into objects that speak to potential function as much as materiality and aesthetics. The works point to the contingent, improvisational processes the artist uses to investigate spatial environments. Meanwhile, moving image work in the Shed space splices together fragments of terrain, water and light to meditative effect. In proximity to the Thames, To Tide You Over, takes the river's tidal rhythm as both subject and structure, considering how adaptation offers ways of understanding shifting landscapes – where water is both sustaining and increasingly unpredictable. The project included an in-Conversation between Susie Olczak, Cecilia Vilela from 92 Webster Road and Catherine Dormor

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	printmaking; sculpture; moving image
Related URLs:	https://www.instagram.com/92websterroad/ https://fadmagazine.com/2026/06/28/top-5... https://ceciliavilela.com/ https://www.galeriamadragoa.pt/artists/5...
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Arts, Culture and Environment
Depositing User:	Susie Olczak
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2026 15:45
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2026 15:45
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15974

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