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 Events

Saturday 20 June, 09:45am – 12pm
Sculpture workshop with Desmond Brett

Join artist and educator Dr Desmond Brett for a hands-on sculpture workshop inspired by the materials and making processes of contemporary sculptor Olivia Bax.

Participants will explore experimental approaches to sculpture using paper, plaster, pigment and armature construction, creating their own expressive three-dimensional works while considering the relationship between material, form and process. Drawing on some of the methods and ideas found in Bax’s practice, the workshop offers an opportunity to think through making, embracing experimentation, texture and transformation.