
Olly Fathers
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Username | ollyfathers |
Profile Type | Artist |
First Name and Last Name | Olly Fathers |
City | London |
Biography
About | Olly Fathers is an artist based in Brixton, London. His work explores the relations between abstract shapes, different materials, and forms. Creating well finished, often playful pieces that encourage the viewer to take a closer look to understand the balance and precision involved. With a strict eye for detail, Fathers takes great satisfaction in the making process and this often becomes influential in the outcome of his work. With a keen interest in woodwork, both as a skill and its use in Art and Design, Fathers has developed a desire to use wood in his practice and creates pieces using a range of different types and species. These works take inspiration from architecture, design, and culture including early computer technology and graphics. These pieces use incredibly intricately cut wood veneers brought together using self taught marquetry techniques. Fathers creates beautifully finished pieces, with contrasting natural and dyed coloured wood which causes the shapes to appear raised out the surface, in a Tromp L’oeil effect. Other works are more sculptural and the 3D elements allow the pieces to have more of a constructed and assembled quality. His paintings were initially a simplified reference to observing the flow of public traffic in built up cities, using paint to replicate the movement of people navigating around buildings, pathways, roads, etc. These pieces have become more refined over the ten plus years he has been making them, and have now taken on their own cleaner, minimal language, yet still having the sense of familiarity with the city landscape. Fathers also makes lots of works with paper, card, recycled cardboard, wood effect vinyl, and more. Many of these pieces are often seen as studies for larger works in the future, yet still all treated as vitally important, well finished pieces of their own. His work has been collected worldwide and he is regularly exhibiting and working on commissions. Recently showing at Saatchi Gallery on multiple occasions and commissioned to make works for Soho House for their collections in London, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, and Mumbai. |
Exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions | Selected Exhibitions 2020 Objects of Art, The Skateboards, House of Vans, London, online 2020 Perfectionism A Trick of the Eye IV, curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry for Open Art Advisory, NY, Online exhibition. 2020 Solo show – Form Block Form, Bearspace gallery, London 2019 Harder Edge, Hospital Club & Saatchi Gallery, London 2018 Jealous Needs You, Jealous Gallery & Saatchi Gallery, London 2018 Micromegas, Saatchi Gallery, London 2017 Jealous gallery rooftop mural, London 2017 Ecstatic Rays, Saatchi Gallery, London 2017 Concrete Dance, Bunker Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany 2016 Traces of minimalism, Helium Cowboy Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 2015 Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch, London 2015 We built this city, pop up art exhibition, Carnaby Street, London 2015 O3 Gallery, Oxford, Trigonometry 2015 Embassy Tea Gallery, Capsule, London 2014 Nitra Gallery, Group Exhibition, Athens, Greece 2014 Letheby Gallery, Made in Arts London, Kings Cross, London 2012 Angelika Studios, Angelika Art Prize Exhibition, High Wycombe 2012 Solo Show, Taylor Street Barista’s, Bank, London 2012 Irvine Fine arts Center, Irvine USA, $99 Show 2012 Invitation by head curator Tess Jaray to show two paintings the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Collections 2018-20 Soho House, purchase of various works for their collection, including premises in London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv & Mumbai 2019 London School of Economics 2018 Merkle digital marketing Various Private collections in Uk, Europe, USA, Australia, and NZ |