Olga Norris

summary biography:

 brought up in Scotland and Greece
 M.A. from Edinburgh University
 successful career in publishing
 making art using textiles 

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After studying aesthetics and art history at university, and a career involved with book design and commissioning art,  I've finally returned to my original ambition: to make my own art.

My impulse is always to tell a story, exploring what might grandly be described as the human condition. Concerned more with gesture than any detail of identity, my figures and their relationships are caught in a moment of time, evoking a narrative - open to fit in any myth of the viewer's making.  Inspiration comes from people-watching: observing conversations, interactions and exchanges - a fascination with body language and how we read ... or misread it.


I draw directly on the computer, scan in other material, use my own digital photographs and then build up the picture to be printed digitally onto fabric.  The prints are then stitched and/or embellished. Some are framed in clear acrylic boxes. The larger forms, also intensively stitched, hang unframed as quilts.


2007                                                                                                                                               

Quilt National '07   26 May - 2 September in Athens, Ohio U.S.A. (selected), then touring

The Art House Gallery Summer Exhibition  16 August - 8 September, Westbourne (group show)

Colour Full  24 January - 23February at Salisbury Arts Centre, Bedwin St, Salisbury, Wiltshire

2006
Display wall 21 November - January 2007 at The Art House Gallery, Westbourne

Work on show from 7 November - January 2007 in The Bluestone Gallery, Devizes, Wiltshire

The Festival of Quilts NEC Birmingham, 17 - 20 August

The Art House Gallery Friends of the Art House Show  Westbourne 17 August - 2 September

The Art House Gallery: 15 Exciting Textile Artists  Westbourne 12 July - 12 August (selected)

2005
Grace Barrand Design Centre, Glass Café 3-28 May, Solo display

Contemporary Art Quilts: Recycled (‘04’s exhibition) Widdington, Essex 19-22 May

2004
Contemporary Art Quilts: Recycled Uffington 24 July - 8 August (invitational)

South West Academy Open Exhibition Exeter 19 June-17 July (juried)

The Art House Gallery Group Show Westbourne 21 July-14 August (selected)

2003
Contemporary Art Quilts Uffington and Bristol July-August (juried)

South West Academy Open Exhibition Exeter 21 June-26 July (juried)
 

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