ESTHER OLSSON
YOU WILL NEVER STEP IN THE SAME RIVER TWICE
31.01.20 ~ 16.02.20
Esther Olsson’s first solo exhibition at Backwoods Gallery, You will never step in the same river twice, explores personal experience, human nature, and how we modify modern-day life. This new series of mixed-media paintings are set within a living installation, entirely immersing viewers.
Olsson’s works are playful graphic fields, bedizened with snakes, angels, bees and flowers that collectively embody our world's interconnectivity. Using a combination of gouache and flat paper application, her stories seem illustrative of nature - ludic scenes composed in a playful, abstract and comic fashion.
Her work relies on her daily experience, drawing on events such as a friend’s early morning arrest during a coal mine protest or the solicitude felt after a legal copyright settlement.
Olsson maintains an itinerant exhibition, publication and commission-based practice, holding an extensive list of clients, including; the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Open, VICE magazine, Diesel and the City of Stonnington.
