SEPT 2024
In BLU, Olivia Colja investigates the constraints of a restricted range of blue hues, and believes this has encouraged her expressive trajectory towards a more explorative and personal mark-making.
These underlying palette restrictions have allowed her room for a deeper dialogue between creation and perception: the interaction between adhering to external limitations and expectations with her intrinsic desires, instincts, personal histories, habits, preferences, and character.
BLU documents Colja’s new artistic freedom to move through moments of fear, stillness and unravelling .
“A rhythmic narrative fills the canvases which will expand the medium’s capability to structure the viewer’s experience in a literal-not-pictorial space and time.” (ARTFORUM, 1975)
Olivia Colja is a West Australian artist, curator and community advocate. Her paintings explore a variety of themes including explorations of her relationships with significant people in her life, landscape, her artistic practice. This is Colja’s second solo exhibition at KS.
Image: Stagnate, 2024. Oil on stretched canvas, 157 x 107cm