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Movement in Oliver’s work begins with the idea of inventing expressive bodies: sculptural forms we relate to through our own embodied, individual selves. Oliver thinks about movement as something that generates joy, rhythm and vitality, a way of stepping outside the human body and becoming something else entirely. These ideas have been shaped and sharpened through conversations with dancer Tyrone Isaac, Franck Jeuffroy, Stuart and dancer, artist and long-time friend Luka Vardiashvili, where dance becomes a way of understanding sculpture and sculpture a way of imagining movement. Dance is one way Oliver explores the body we are. Sculpture allows that exploration to slip into fantasy, science fiction, the futuristic and the ancient - a timeless space where archetypes surface and dissolve. Some believe these forms speak from another planet, another dimension. Where do they come from? Imagination and whatever that mysterious *this* is. Oliver feels these bodies into being. Whether moving or still, they suggest motion, as if they might begin at any moment. His work is deeply influenced by Carolee Schneemann, Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely - sculpture as text for movement, freedom and poetry. Schneemann especially, where the body itself becomes movement, sculpture and language. Conversations with scientists such as Huia-Ti Lin and Naomi Nakayama at Imperial College, about dragonfly wing geometry, dandelion seeds responding to moisture and active geometry shaping flight, feed Oliver’s obsession with the everyday miracle of things flying. Effortlessness. Potential. Levitation like in dreams. Movement as joy. As rhythm. As life-giving. Abstract, invented body thingees. Written by Giada Holland for ArtULTRA Between 6 December 2025 - 15 February 2026 my sculptures and drawings are on display at the ArtULTRA showroom in London.
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what this lifts and wandering wondering what exactly lifts when so flat is holding this flat holding wondering holding hold what is this then that holds and holding this happiness outward so obvious is this it is a projection but I can feel and I can feel the recognising can and this it alters and I wonder but I wonder but know then also not knowing both of these sitting they are together feeling this roll roll rolling knowing this how when not in the least at the most the least a viewing this a viewing
 an artist here writing tidying talking being looking searching who he is not is not making art an artist here not making art here he is making art and not making undoing making art art artist making art this one here sitting surrounded by art he has made before now I will making this made making made he is the one who making made he made and is making now an artist  |
February 2026
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