Olga’s practice is fuelled by her own personal emotional response to injustice.
This body of work speaks to the global and national plight of the homeless regardless of origins, be they asylum seekers, migrants, political, religious, or societal refugees, including our own citizens.
Olga brings a unique original and innovative interpretation in her approach to this socially sensitive and often highly charged topic. She has created a language by manipulating road markings to convey the plight of the homeless. She uses both framed and unframed canvases to convey the structure and rules of society as well as the rough, course, frayed fragility, and vulnerability of life. These works reflect the harshness of the space in which the homeless sit, live, sleep and where many die.
The Mouth of the Cave is a poem Olga wrote that will form part of this body of work. It speaks to the cause of homelessness and migration and questions; How far have we come?
Olga’s work on the Tuam Mother and Babies, was longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards, included in the Galway International Arts Festival ‘Art of Protest’, at Kenny’s and travelled to the Highlanes Gallery, ‘Crossing Lines’ group/cross-border exhibition, before returning to University of Galway as a solo exhibition. Her work was critically acclaimed by Dr. Declan Long on RTÉ 1’s Arena Arts Programme. She was awarded a Residency at Watershed Artists Residency, Galway, and the Luxembourg Art Prize 2019 – Certificate of Artistic Achievement.
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