Susie Olczak

With my work, I aim to make people more aware of the spaces around them by framing the details that are often overlooked when moving through transitory spaces. For example, the way that light flickers in-between railings when you move past them. I focus on those points where there is a discrepancy between what we think we see and what we are actually seeing. I use architectural materials - neon, stone, glass, concrete and steel – combining these in my works to consider urban spaces as systems comprised of balance, weight, and fragility. Recently I have begun combining materials found in the artist's studio such as paint and silicone alongside printed media to create sculptures using layers of material. I investigate our relationship with the built environment, how this is changing and how we are caught between altering states of flux and stability. I do this by creating works that are layers upon layers of print, precariously or imposingly balanced on one point, by using more fragile materials to prop up heavier masses, or by unusual combinations of materials such as the submersion of neon into water.

Underpinning all my work are the themes of time, climate change, and urban development in the context of new technologies and p...

MA Sculpture Royal College of Art 2017-2019

BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture Glasgow School of Art 2006-2010

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017: Ugly Duck, London. Constructed Reality

2013: Tower 42, London. Volume

2011: Makers Gallery, Cambridge. Transition

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020: Discerning Eye. Judges Selection by Jo Baring

2020: Ori, Berlin. Utopie

2020: Royal Society of Sculptors. Summer Show

2020: Standpoint Gallery, London. Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency Presentation

2019: Ingram Collection at the Cello Factory, London. Purchase Prize Finalist Exhibition

2019: Royal College of Art. Graduate Show

2019: Royal College of Art Courtyard Gallery. The Slade and RCA. Teaser

2019: South London Gallery. Everything you ever wanted to know about sculpture

2018: Anise Gallery. Graduate Exhibition

2018: Palazzo de Zenobio, Venice. Summer Exhibition

2017: Royal Society of Sculptors, London. Bursary Award Exhibition

2017: Ugly Duck, London. Lumen School of Light

2016: The Undercroft Norwich. Beneath the Surface

2016: Mark Devereux Projects at Artwork Atelier, Manchester. Studiobook

2015: Mile End Art Pavilion. Eureka

2014: Aid and Abet, Cambridge. Demolition

2014: Golden Thread Gallery, Connecticut. Pioneer

2013: Anise Gallery, London. Group Show
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