Olivia Sterling
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Overview
Sterling has carved out a distinctive niche in using paint to address questions of blackness and whiteness in twenty-first century Britain.
Born in Peterborough in 1996 and graduating from the RCA in 2020, Sterling has carved out a distinctive niche in using paint to address questions of blackness and whiteness in twenty-first century Britain. Her paintings present scenes of colourful mayhem with a nostalgic twist and signature ‘slapstick’ style, combining joyous celebration with a subtle critique of racialised ways of seeing.Blending pointed references like this into her depiction of ordinary scenes and subjects, Sterling’s work reflects on how we are confronted by racialised discourse everywhere in the everyday. Even happy or anodyne spaces are encoded with structures of othering and difference; every object, every skin tone, is assigned its place in a drama that continues beyond the edges of the canvas. -
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Works
Olivia Sterling
Things of the Mind , 2024Acrylic on canvas300 x 150 cm
118 1/8 x 59 inVery simply, to encapsulate the valentines/chocolates/dog treats theme a chocolate box is filled with a mix of things that represent my anxious mind - stuff that should and shouldn’t be...Very simply, to encapsulate the valentines/chocolates/dog treats theme a chocolate box is filled with a mix of things that represent my anxious mind - stuff that should and shouldn’t be there. The introspection thoughts, thoughts of desire and thoughts of love rattle around the chocolate box of my mind. White hands try to get inside which represent Whiteness Ideology/ far right ideology which has its own strict and frankly dull rules (i.e no fatness, queerness, fluidity or colour) that contradict not only what I look like, but how I love and think.Contact FormSend me more information on Olivia Sterling
Biography
© Brynley Odu DaviesB. 1996, Peterborough, England. Based in London, UK
Education
2015-2018 BA Fine Art, University of Derby
2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Your Cheeks Are Wine, Meyer Riegger, Basel
2022 Dinner with a Show, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
2022 Manslaughter, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Yowl, Nevven, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 White Bread, Cob Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Episodes, CCA Goldsmiths, London, (UK)
2021 Clutching at Straws, Volt, Eastbourne
2021 It Clings like a Leech, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 A Cure for Nose Bleeds, Marriots Way, Reepham, Norfolk
2018 Who is civilised? Gallery No.1, Repton
Institutional Exhibitions
2024 Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (UK)
Art Fairs
2024 London Original Print Fair, Soho Revue
2024 Art Basel Hong Kong, Meyer Reigger
2023 Art Basel Miami, Meyer Reigger
2023 Art Basel, Meyer Riegger
Group Exhibitions
2024 Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf, TJ Boulting, London, (UK)
2024 Bitches In Heat, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)2024 Entrée, Palazzo Monti, Italy
2024 The Arcadian Dream, Spurs Gallery, China
2024 NEW NOW: Part 2, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Rose Tinted Glasses, Ojiri Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Exhibition 01, Particular Ideas, London, (UK)
2023 Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Rage Comics, Huxley Parlour, London, (UK)
2023 Out Here, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,(USA)
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 The Object Stares Back, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, Italy
2023 (It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 The Bioelectric Self Pit LA
2022 Roe, Back Room Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Villeggiatura, Nevven, Italy
2022 What Now, PM/AM
2022 Cherry on the Cake, Sothebys, Stockholm
2022 Blob, TJ Boulting, London, (UK)
2022 In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate
2022 An Arcadian Kind of Love, Soho Revue, London, (UK)
2021 Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London
2021 Black, Bold, British, Christies, London, (UK)
2021 Don’t Go South, Studio Berkhiem, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 Play and the Post Peak, Factory Project, London, (UK)
2021 Universes 4, Galerie Droste, Paris
2021 A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 'Introducing' at the Shop, Sadie Coles x Guts Gallery, London
2021 Citizens of Memory, The Perimeter, London, (UK)
2021 Summer Show, Karen Tronel Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Selfhood, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Safe as Milk, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, (UK)
2021 When Shit Hits the Fan Again, Guts Gallery, Online
2020 Curated for Christmas, All Mouth x Bowes-Parris Gallery, London
2020 RCA Black History Online, David Lisbon, Online
2020 Love your symptom, but not too much, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2020 A Rudimentary Education, Art Lacuna, London, (UK)
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Right Back at You, The Function Suite, London, (UK)
2020 Begin Again, Guts Gallery, Online
2020 BLACK & WHITE, The Orange Garden, Online
2020 50/50, FOLD Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 London’s New Contemporaries, A Space for Art, Hari Hotel London
2020 Materiality and Connection, curated by Joe Hill, RCA, Online
2020 Optimistic, Singular and New, curated by Jony Ive, RCA, Online
2020 Urgency, Wit and Rigour, curated by John Bloomfield, RCA, Online
2020 I Graduated From My Bedroom curated by Victor Wang, RCA, Online
2020 Slivers and Remnants curated by Esther Leslie, RCA, Online
2020 RCA2020, RCA, Online
2020 Tomorrow: London, White Cube, Online
2020 Without a Painter, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Snapshot, RCA Hockney Gallery, London, (UK)
2019 Meet Me in the Kitchen, UCA Farnham, Surrey, (UK)
2019 Got it for Cheap, House of Vans, London, (UK)
2019 Painting from the Other Side, Dyson Gallery, London, (UK)
2018 WIP, Sackler, RCA Battersea
2018 Britannia Mill, Derby, (UK)
2017 Smoke and Mirrors, Riverlights, Derby, (UK)
2016 Ilam, Staffordshire
2014 Earth without Art, Spalding, (UK)
Residencies
2021 Fores Residency, London, (UK)
2020 HQI Summer Residency, London, (UK)
2016 Extended Contexts, National Trust IIam, England, (UK)
Artist Talks
2021 Olivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham in Conversation, CCA Goldsmiths, London, (UK)
2021 In-conversation: Olivia Sterling and Sam Kindon, Volt Eastbourne, Sussex, (UK)
2021 Drawing Around Food, Drawing Room, London, (UK)
2020 HoP Around with Alexandria Smith, RCA, London, (UK)
2020 Without a Painter in Conversation with Bolane Tajudeen, London, (UK)
2019 Artist Talk,UCA Farnham
Awards
2018, Pro Vice-Chancellor / Dean's Award 2018 Degree Show Exhibition
Exhibitions-
Bitches In Heat
Lydia Pettit & Olivia Sterling 2024年9月13日 - 10月13日Read more -
A Feast For The Eyes
2024年7月5日 - 7月30日Read more -
NEW NOW
Co-curated by Ell Pennick and Brynley Odu Davies 2023年12月1日 - 2024年2月6日Read more -
(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
2023年1月13日 - 2月2日Read more -
OLIVIA STERLING
MANSLAUGHTER 2022年4月7日 - 4月28日With this powerful body of work Sterling centres violence against women, and in particular, women of colour over the pas...Read more -
REALITY CHECK
2021年9月23日 - 10月3日Opening: Thur 23 Sept 6-9pm Exhibition Location: Anderson Contemporary, Carpenter’s Wharf Studios, 4b Roach Road, ...Read more -
CCA Presents Really Rough Scrubbing Brush by OLIVIA STERLING
2021年9月17日 - 10月31日Private View: Sep 17 6-9pm Address: Goldsmiths CCA, St James’s, New Cross, London, SE14 6AD Opening Times: Wednesd...Read more -
A NEW ART WORLD
A NEW ART WORLD IS POSSIBLE. 2021年7月22日 - 7月29日Private View: Thursday 22 July 6-9pm Opening Hours: Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm __st...Read more -
INTRODUCING
London Gallery Weekend at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ 2021年6月4日 - 6月6日London Gallery Weekend 4-6 June 2021 11am - 8pm (Opening day) 11am - 6pm (Regular hours) ...Read more
Press-
Meet the most exciting young artists in London right now
Nancy Durrant, The Standard, 2024年10月15日 -
Lydia Pettit & Olivia Sterling: ‘Bitches in Heat’
Eddy Frankel, Time Out, 2024年9月19日 -
Artists Lydia Pettit and Olivia Sterling in Conversation: On Self Portraiture, The Void and Bitches In Heat
Gina Tonic, Polyesterzine, 2024年7月23日 -
Who. What. Where? No. 82
HUNGER writers, Hunger, 2024年9月18日 -
This exhibition celebrates feral female desire
Millen Brown-Ewens, Dazed, 2024年9月13日 -
6 ARTISTS TO FIND AT LONDON ART FAIR 2024
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 2024年1月18日 -
London Art Fair 2024 Interviews
Olivia SterlingJamie Hope , Guts Gallery , 2024年1月16日 -
The Future of London Art
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 2023年10月11日 -
The art of the artist portrait, with photographer Brynley Odu Davies
Olivia Hingley, It's Nice That, 2023年5月30日 -
The artist and the work: Portraits capturing creative solitude
Ry Gavin, Hunger Magazine, 2023年5月5日 -
Share this article Email Facebook Twitter It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To
Tahney Fosdike, Plinth, 2023年1月27日 -
The exhibition about femininity, sexualisation, & crying on your birthday
Millen Brown-Ewens, i-D Magazine, 2023年1月19日 -
Sensual and grotesque depictions of modern womanhood
Emily Dinsdale, Dazed, 2023年1月16日 -
Cate Blanchett’s Tàr, getting grotesque with Guts Gallery and a Lychee Martini at Chet’s
Hero Magazine, 2023年1月13日 -
London’s best new galleries
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 2023年1月12日 -
Art shows to leave the house for this January
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, 2023年1月11日 -
FOUR SHOWS TO OPEN IN LONDON THIS WEEK
Maribelle Bierens, Where's The Frame, 2023年1月10日 -
(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 2022年12月29日 -
GUTS 2022 CLOSING EXHIBITION IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN IRAN
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 2022年12月15日 -
New Wave: Painting in Britain Today
Phillips, 2022年12月8日 -
The best (and worst) art exhibitions of 2022
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 2022年11月15日 -
Pudding with a bitter aftertaste Olivia Sterling at Meyer Riegger
Julia Meyer-Brehm, gallerytalk.net, 2022年11月8日 -
“MANSLAUGHTER,” BY OLIVIA STERLING AT GUTS GALLERY, LONDON
Jethro Turner, 2022年4月13日 -
Olivia Sterling: ‘Manslaughter’
Eddy Frankel, Time Out , 2022年4月11日 -
First Thursdays
Whitechapel Gallery , 2022年4月7日 -
Artist Talk: Olivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham at Goldsmiths CCA
Goldsmiths CCA, Goldsmiths CCA Channel , 2022年2月2日 -
FF2 Media Reviews Olivia Sterling's CCA Exhibition 'Really Rough Scrubbing Brush"
Jessica Bond , 2021年12月1日 -
FAD Magazine feature Guts latest exhibition REALITY CHECK
Mark Westall , FAD Magazine , 2021年9月23日 -
Creative Boom feature Olivia Sterling Goldsmiths CCA
Katy Cowan , Creative Boom , 2021年9月22日 -
DAZED features latest Guts exhibition, REALITY CHECK
Emily Dinsdale, DAZED, 2021年9月21日 -
Olivia Sterling in conversation at the Drawing Room
Drawing Room , 2021年7月4日 -
Olivia Sterling in GQ
Sophie Hastings, GQ , 2021年6月24日 -
Olivia Sterling featured in Wallpaper* ‘CITIZENS OF MEMORY’: NOSTALGIA AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE EXPLORED
Oyin Akande , Wallpaper*, 2021年5月26日 -
Guts Gallery featured in The New York Times 'Gallery Weekend Brings London's Art Scene Back to Life '
Scott Reyburn, The New York Times , 2021年6月7日 -
OLIVIA STERLING FEATURED IN SIXTH FINCH
Sixth Finch , 2021年5月13日 -
FRIEZE REVIEWS OLIVIA STERLING 'WHITE BREAD' EXHIBITION
Leanne Petersen , FRIEZE, 2021年4月20日 -
ELEPHANT FEATURES SOPHIE VALLANCE AND OLIVIA STERLING
Madeleine Pollard , ELEPHANT , 2021年4月2日 -
PURPLE MAGAZINE REVIEWS “WHITE BREAD” AN EXHIBITION BY OLIVIA STERLING AT COB GALLERY, LONDON
Jethro Turner, PURPLE , 2021年3月30日 -
DATEAGLE ART INTERVIEWS OLIVIA STERLING
Laurie Barron, DATEAGLE ART, 2021年2月22日 -
DATEAGLE ART STUDIO VISIT WITH OLIVIA STERLING
Laurie Barron, DATEAGLE ART , 2021年2月22日 -
Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland
Mimi Chu, Frieze, 2021年2月12日 -
OLIVIA STERLING INTERVIEW ON SHE CURATES
MOLLIE E BARNES, SHE CURATES, 2021年1月13日 -
ON VIEW BY FLASH ART: “It’s 2020 For F*ck Sake” Guts Gallery and Soft Punk / London
Flash Art , 2020年12月11日 -
Olivia Sterling paints nostalgia-filled pieces to deconstruct complex issues of othering
Lucy Bourton, It's Nice That, 2020年11月6日 -
IT’S 2020 FOR F*CK SAKE
ART PLUGGED, ART PLUGGED, 2020年9月30日 -
Begin Again: The online exhibition challenging austerity and racial oppression
Scarlett Baker , Love Magazine, 2020年8月13日 -
Scrap that, lets begin again
TJ Sidhu, The Face, 2020年8月13日 -
Begin Again is the virtual art exhibition tackling racial inequality
Gunseli Yalcinkaya, Dazed , 2020年8月14日
