Marilene Oliver

British printmaker and sculptor

Marilene Julie Oliver (born 1977) is a British printmaker and sculptor.

Marilene Oliver gained a BA in Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA and MPhil in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art,[1] both in London.

Her research at the RCA involved scanning the human body.[2] She has produced unusual sculptures based on live human bodies using the scanning technologies of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), normally used for medical reasons.[3]

Marilene Oliver has exhibited her work in Gifu (Japan), Berlin (Germany) [4] and at Beaux Arts London in Cork Street, London (England), in 2003, 2006 and 2007.[5] Marilene Oliver's work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum Print Room. It is also in the Wellcome Trust collection.[3]

From 2016 Marilene Oliver has been employed as assistant professor in Printmaking at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Artworks

  • I Know You Inside Out (2001)
  • Family Portrait (2003)
  • Text Me (2003)
  • Sleeping Beauty (2004)
  • Radiant (2005)
  • Exhausted Figure (2006)
  • Dervishes (2007)
  • Heart Axis (2007)
  • Dreamcatcher (2009)
  • Orixa (2010)
  • Split Petcetrix (2010)
  • Dugout (2014)

References

  1. ^ Royal College of Art: Alumni Archived 2007-09-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Royal College of Art: Marilene Oliver Archived 2007-11-12 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ a b Oliver, Marilene, Resurrecting the Digitised Body: The use of the 'scanned in' body for making artworks Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, EVA London 2007, pages 15.1–15.10. EVA Conferences International, 2007.
  4. ^ Marilene Oliver — Current and Future Exhibitions Archived 2007-09-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ Marilène Oliver — Beaux Arts Archived 2007-11-03 at the Wayback Machine.

Further reading

  • Artist Statement, Leonardo, 37:5, Autumn 2004.
  • Marilene Oliver website
  • SciCult: art and science biographical information
  • Marilene Oliver on artnet
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