Opens on Aug 2 until Aug 24, 2025
Downstairs |
Janet Ollevou
WFH Shelter
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cardboard, felt, blankets and cordage, dimensions variable, 2025
WFH is a meditation on the work of artists and the impact of housing and living costs on their time and available resources to be able to support work that extends beyond basic sustenance and security on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Loosely based on the format of the reality TV survival show ‘Alone’, the starting point is a basic Shelter, and over the duration of the exhibition, progressively craft necessary tools and other comforts from materials scavenged from the surrounding urban environment in a dynamic installation that will change daily.
The outcomes of this project are open ended, however I hope to have conversations with visitors about their experiences as artists or with working from home and topics related to recycling, security, and the current economy; The processes and resulting objects will be recorded and made available for exchange or sale, with a portion of any profits going to local organisations supporting homelessness relief.
The outcomes of this project are open ended, however I hope to have conversations with visitors about their experiences as artists or with working from home and topics related to recycling, security, and the current economy; The processes and resulting objects will be recorded and made available for exchange or sale, with a portion of any profits going to local organisations supporting homelessness relief.
A graduate of both Sydney College of the Arts (Visual Arts) and University of Sydney (Art History and Theory) Janet Ollevou is an independent artist, writer, and curator. Her work in museum and gallery art collection management has continuously informed her creative practice, which often touches on the afterlives of objects in a digital world.
Ollevou’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions since the 1990s, including Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide; Otok/Island, Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia; The World Over (Under Capricorn II), Wellington City Gallery and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Multiplication, Monash University Gallery. In 1996 she was International Artist in Residence at the Auckland School of Art and held a major solo exhibition at the ASA Gallery, Auckland.
Ollevou’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions since the 1990s, including Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide; Otok/Island, Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia; The World Over (Under Capricorn II), Wellington City Gallery and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Multiplication, Monash University Gallery. In 1996 she was International Artist in Residence at the Auckland School of Art and held a major solo exhibition at the ASA Gallery, Auckland.
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