Artist Bio

Olivia Arnold is a multidisciplinary artist working on Gadigal land. 

Since graduating from the National Art School, Arnold has developed a practice that has a strong focus on materiality and observation of her environment. Her work creates a sense of place and presence, through mindful mark making, observational drawing, and an evocative limited palette.

Arnold’s work is site specific, documenting the trace of moving through, or sitting within her everyday surroundings. Her work investigates the interaction of nature and built structures; sunlight through a window, a streetlight illuminating foliage, an afternoon shadow across a brick wall. Arnold employs meditative mark making as a means of slowing the documentation process, memorialising the fleeting imagery she depicts. 

Arnold has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, exhibiting at both commercial galleries and artist run initiatives. She has participated in a number of residencies, including Factory 49 in Paris, France, Studio FF in Sydney, and Ridge Street Artist Studios as part of North Sydney Council. Arnold has featured as a finalist in a variety of prizes including the Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award, the Gosford Art Prize, and won the Saint Cloche Award in the Little Things Art Prize. She currently holds a studio at OnePlus2 studios in Balmain, Sydney.

Arnold also works as an artist educator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and is passionate about providing meaningful engagement with art for all ages and abilities.