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Bax, Olivia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6279-9730
(2024)
Solo show, Handrailing, New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park.
[Show/Exhibition]
Abstract
The New Art Centre at Roche Court Sculpture Park is delighted to announce Olivia Bax: Handrailing, a solo exhibition in conjunction with Sid Motion Gallery opening on Saturday 14th September, 2024. In this new series, Olivia Bax explores the relationship between material and form in response to the New Art Centre’s gallery space. It is an apt setting for her ongoing interest in the linear and the solid, the interior and the exterior. Her sculpture is unexpected in every way, from its playful compositions to its unconventional materials – paper pulp, chicken wire, household paint. Welding metal armatures and assembling protruding limbs, she pushes us to consider different perspectives. The title of the exhibition is indicative of the exploratory process behind her work; ‘Handrailing’ is a term used in rock climbing or orienteering to move through or along a space. This resonates with Bax in her process of making and taking a work from one stage to the next. While working as a studio assistant to Anthony Caro in her early twenties, Caro encouraged Bax: “Stop making sculpture, create a world”. Subsequently, her practice evolved into a vehicle for enquiry, questioning the world around her and creating alternative realities. Bax enjoys subverting and poking fun at sculpture’s ‘rules’. Adopting lightweight, waste materials as her media, her work challenges the traditional assumption that sculpture should be heavy and made from expensive materials.
| Item Type: | Show/Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts |
| Depositing User: | Olivia Bax |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2025 14:21 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 14:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14785 |
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