Exhibited Artist
Olivia Bax
Olivia Bax (b. 1988, Singapore) lives and works in London. She acquired a BA Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (2007-2010) and an MFA Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London (2014-2016). She is the recipient of The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (2019/20) and Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize (2016). She has recently been exhibited at BoLee and Workman, Bruton (2024); Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre (2023-24); Southbank Centre, London (2023); Hatch, Paris (2023); Lustwarande, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg (2023); Holtermann Fine Art, London (2021-2022); L21, Mallorca (2022) and Ribot Gallery, Milan (2019/20). Bax’s work was acquired by the 2020-21 UK Arts Council Collection; her work is also in the Ingram Collection and Tremenheere Sculpture Park. In 2024, Bax curated a major institutional exhibition called These Mad Hybrids which situates a series of unknown ceramic sculptures made by John Hoyland (1934-2011) in dialogue with a spectacular, international, assembly of contemporary sculpture. The show opened at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol (February-May 2024) and tours to Sheffield Museums (2025).