EXHIBITION BY OLIVIA BEVAN
THE EXHIBITON
Exploring landscape as a relational and evolving process
ARTIST TALK AND COLLABORATIVE SESSION
Friday 13 November, 6:30 to 8 pm.
Join artist Olivia Bevan at Sol Creative for a short artist talk exploring her current exhibition of large-scale paintings, which investigate landscape as a process shaped by time, material change, memory and our subjective experiences of place.
Following the talk, take part in a relaxed, hands-on creative session using drawing, painting andcollage. Together, we’ll experiment with marks, colours, textures and fragments to create acollaborative artwork inspired by our own memories, interpretations and experiences oflandscape. No previous art experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore!
WHERE
Sol Creative Foundry, Unit 5, Irwin Centre, Dry Drayton, CB23 8AR
TICKETS
Free, registration required
PARKING
Free, on-site
ARTIST BIO
Olivia explores the connections between material transformation, perception and the environments we inhabit.
Olivia Bevan (b. 1995) is a South African-born artist based in Cambridge, UK, working across painting, printmaking and ceramics. Her practice explores landscape as a relational and evolving process, investigating how place is shaped through material interaction, memory, lived experience and encounters with specific sites.
She uses material processes across paint, print and clay, such as layering, repetition, erosion, compression, casting and glazing to create forms, marks and surfaces. Through these processes, she explores the connections between material transformation, perception and the environments we inhabit.
Olivia holds a BA (Honours) in Fine Art (Visual Arts) from Stellenbosch University and an MA in Fine Art/Printmaking from Anglia Ruskin University, where her research examined mark-making as a form of place-making. Alongside her studio practice, she works across arts education, museum learning and technical studio environments, including Kettle’s Yard and Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts. Her work in educational and community contexts informs her interest in collaboration, accessibility and the ways creative practice can create opportunities for shared exploration and meaning-making.