Louise Olsen
Video tour: Louise Olsen – Manifestations
OLSEN GallerySeptember 2023 _view online (external link)
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Father’s legacy, nature’s wonder keep Olsen in the picture
The Australian, StyleAlison Veness
4 September 2023
The artist explains how painting will always be thethread that connects her with her father the lategreat design luminary John Olsen.
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Related exhibition: Louise Olsen Manifestations
Louise Olsen: Manifestations
OLSEN GalleryAugust 2023 _view online (external link)
Related exhibition: Louise Olsen Manifestations
Surfacing: The art of Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
Art Monthly, Issue 313Michael Fitzgerald
Summer 2018-19
The oozing amoebic forms, fashioned from resin, that have become signature pieces from Sydney's Dinosaur Designs since the mid-1980s, always seemed to signal a desire to transform into something else. As have their City Art Institute-trained creators, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, who established the iconic brand with Liane Rossler in 1985. Now the pair's lesser-known artistic oeuvre, drawn from a shared 30-year studio practice and on display at the Newscastle Art Gallery until 17 February 2019, reveals a modernith aesthetic as seemingly simple and slippery as those early resin forms, moving from intimate and ethereal studies in watercolour and oil (Olsen) to tumescent totemic sculpture and three-dimensional collage (Ormandy).
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