About
Oliver is an artist exploring relationships between craft, ruralism, place, folk culture and ideas of utopia through use of narrative, fictional encounters, exploration and observation of place on foot.
Exploring the performative element to making; the ephemerality found in dance and music; the process and motion involved in making, often repetitive and extended over hours or days, the manual movement and rhythm experienced when using agricultural hand tools on the family farm.
Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, Oliver received a BA Hons. in Fine Art followed by an MA in Textile Design from University College Falmouth. He apprenticed for a period under silk weaver Homare Yamashita of Meyu Studio, Hachijjyojima, Japan and later spent a year working with Textile Designer Tamaki Niime.
Biography
2010 MA Textile Design, University College Falmouth 2009 BA Hons. Fine Art, University College Falmouth
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions and installations
2023 Hay making; home making. Greve de Lecq Barracks, Jersey 2021 Refugio. Greve de Lecq Barracks, Jersey
Selected group exhibitions and installations
2022 Materialise Me. La Fosse, Jersey 2022 Where Waste Meets Design. Capital House - ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey 2021 Skipton Big Ideas. ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey 2020 Zen Jenga. Greve de Lecq Barracks, Jersey 2018 Summer Exhibition. CCA Galleries International, Jersey 2010 The Textile Society`s Student Bursary. Kensington Town Hall, London 2010. MA Design Show. University College Falmouth, Cornwall. 2009 CCANW (Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World), Devon 2009 Student Art Award. Berni Gallery, Jersey 2009 BA Fine Art Show. University College Falmouth, Cornwall 2008 JJ Fox Exhibition. Berni Gallery, Jersey 2008 Half Way. The Poly, Cornwall 2006 Art & Design Foundation Show. University College Falmouth, Cornwall 2006 Pandora`s draws. Penzance, Cornwall 2005 OCR National Exhibition of AS/A2 Art and Design. Birmingham
Commissions
2022 ArtHouse Jersey, Where Waste Meets Design. 2020 ArtHouse Jersey, Covid Commission
Performance
2024 Performer, “ARCADE” by Casson & Friends. Jersey
Clients
RIER Official
Awards
2023 Professional development grant, Arthouse Jersey 2014 Rivington Travel Scholarship 2011 Jersey Arts Trust. 2011 The Strasser Jersey Foundation 2010 Textile Society`s Student Bursary, Prize winner 2010 Rivington Travel Scholarship 2009 The Strasser Jersey Foundation 2005 Averil Picot Scholarship, Societe Jersiaise 2005 Sayers Award, Victoria College.
Publications
2012 TEXT, Textile Society Journal, volume 39, p84-86