Iris Ollier is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator working across sculpture, design, and image-making.
Ollier’s practice investigates embodied perception and the tacit dimensions of human experience through materials with inherent novelty value. She is interested in the commodification of attention through social media, as well as the physical act of looking. Ollier’s work was perhaps best described by The White Pube’s Zarina Muhammad: “imagine if art could refract space, repel space, bend and shift the peripheral edges around you or bunch it all up close.”
Iris Ollier is also 1/4 of Votive Gallery: Votive is an itinerant curatorial project based in and around Edinburgh. Responding to the lack of exhibition spaces for emerging artists in the capital, despite the abundance of exciting work being made. We aim to cultivate a sustained and critical discourse around contemporary art by platforming local artists and inviting practitioners from further afield to show in the city. In the process, we hope to give audiences in Edinburgh access to artists whose work falls outside the scope of the larger institutions that dominate the cultural landscape. Find us @votivegallery on instagram.
It is through the body that consciousness extends itself and is affected. The body is both something which takes up space, and the core around which all space extends.
Currently living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.