Olivia Bax: Wind Eyes

Wind Eyes draws on the Old Norse word for ‘window’ – vindauga, or ‘wind eye’ – a term that captures both looking and feeling. Inspired in part by Cole Swensen’s prose poem The Glass Age, Olivia Bax’s new collection of works made for East Gallery, explores how openings, screens and thresholds shape our experience of space.

Olivia Bax (b. 1988, Singapore) is a sculptor who brings things together, creating ensembles of found and made objects held by metal armatures, chicken wire, cardboard and paper pulp.

In this exhibition she presents large-scale hinged screens made from perforated steel, alongside forms that reference canopies, grilles and blind holders. Everyday armatures, including the grids of shopping trolleys, inform new sculptural works that play with shifting scales, light and altered viewpoints.

Opening Times

Tuesday – Friday, 12pm – 5pm
Saturday, 12pm – 4pm

Exhibition launch

Thursday 7 May, 5-7pm

See it first! Celebrate the launch of Olivia Bax’s Wind Eyes at East Gallery. Explore her striking sculptures and screens that transform space and perception. Free refreshments served. All welcome, no booking required.

Exhibition Events

Monday 18 May, 1:30pm
Wind Eyes Exhibition Tour

A lunchtime tour of the exhibition Wind Eyes with artist Olivia Bax and East Gallery curator, Claire Allerton.

Monday 18 May, 6pm
In conversation with Olivia Bax and Stephen Feeke

Join sculptor Olivia Bax in conversation with curator and scholar Dr Stephen Feeke as they discuss Bax’s practice, her recent projects, and the ways sculpture shapes our experience of space. An engaging insight into contemporary sculptural practice and ideas, with time for audience questions.