Olivia Rose Durley

B: 1994
Olivia is a contemporary British artist currently living and working from her home studio in Hertfordshire. She graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting in 2017.

Her work handles the two realities of paint; it's illusionistic spatiality and it's material presence. Her practice appropriates a balance between the fixed nature of photography and the timelessness of painting; photographic details are blurred within painterly brushstrokes and structures. The aberration of the two components creates an enigmatic, placeless experience within nature that on one hand forms a sense of familiarity and on the other, an unidentifiable discomfort. Olivia scrutinises the evolving colours and tones amplified through cloud formations, using her painting technique to highlight the fleeting transcience of time and a feeling of nostalgia. She views the landscape as a latent oil painting continuously emerging and coming into being, fascinated by that precious, short space of time in which the sky bursts into colour before it is then subermerged into dusk - a distant memory.

2014 - 2017
University of Brighton, BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting

2013 - 2014
North Hertfordshire College, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

THE OTHER ART FAIR: OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON - 7-10 MARCH 2024

'DOWN THE GARDEN PATH': UCH STREET GALLERY, 235 EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, NW1 2BU - 17 NOVEMBER 2023 - FEBRUARY 2024

'IN SEARCH OF PEACE AND LOVE AMONGST THE FLOWERS': GALLERY@OXO, LONDON - NOVEMBER 2023

THE OTHER ART FAIR: OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON - OCTOBER 2023

ROY'S ART FAIR: BARGEHOUSE, OXO TOWER WHARF, LONDON - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023

ART ON A POSTCARD SUMMER AUCTION: HOXTON GALLERY, LONDON- JUNE/JULY 2023

THE OTHER ART FAIR: OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON - 9-12 MARCH 2023

'CANYON' VIRTUAL EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY FRESH SALAD ART - FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023

NOVEMBER ART DROP: STYLE YOUR SPACES, EDINBURGH - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022

ART ON A POSTCARD WINTER AUCTION - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2022

THE OTHER ART FAIR: WEST HANDYSIDE CANOPY, KING'S CROSS, LONDON - JUNE/JULY 2022

The Other Art Fair: Old Truman Brewery, London - 17-20 March 2022

'Principles of Art': Collective Gallery, St. Albans - 2021

The Ayot St. Lawrence Art Show: St. Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence - 2021

Degree Show: University of Brighton, Brighton - 2017

Art Coop Art Exhibition: Reigate School of Art Design & Media: Redhill - 2017

Unfettered: Coachwerks Gallery, Brighton - 2017

Stretch: University of...