Olivia Jeffries creates mixed media drawings from her home studio in Norwich, United Kingdom. She graduated in 2000 with a BA in Printmaking and Photomedia from Norwich School of Art and Design.

Olivia’s creative process is continually influenced by her fascination for used paper. She enthuses about working on a surface that has already been given a sense of purpose in a previous incarnation which has become visibly worn over time.

Old letters, books or packaging materials, for example, are detached from their original roles and combined with figures drawn from old photographs, stripped of their surroundings.

These relatively valueless materials are brought together to explore the barely tangible traces of life; to project the vulnerability of love, precariousness of life and inevitability of death which embody the complex and uncertain nature of simply being human.

Recent shows:

September 08: Pulp (USA) - Broken, Lost and Beautiful (solo show)

April 08: Mahan Gallery (USA) - Isn't it Romantic? (group show)

January 08: Pulp (USA) - Paper Dolls (group show)

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