Olana Light
Portsmouth, UK
Olana makes immersive, disorientating, otherworldly installations and sculptures, mythic representations of her world view. Inhabited by a creature that is neither human nor alien, real or imaginary, these glowing environments and tactile costumes bend the fragile boundaries of our perceived reality.
Her works are fantastic and strange, inviting you into her micro-world to explore ideas of identity, belonging and otherness. She wants to extend the boundaries of the human figure, invert a sense of identity and create a new form of fantastical being.
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Olana Light currently lives and works in Portsmouth, UK. Since graduating from the BA Fine Art course at Southampton Solent University in 2017, she has also completed a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, graduating in 2020.
Olana has received the National Lottery Project Grant 2021 for her project the Search to Belong. She is one of the nine winners of the Lucky Dip 2021 bursary scheme by ‘a space’ arts. She is a winner of the Little Forest Open Competition 2022, the Zealous Stories Sculpture 2021, and the Sunny Art Prize Award 2020. She has been shortlisted for the Zealous Stories: Short Film 2022, the Zealous Stories Performance 2020; Batsford Prize Award 2019 and 2017; the Harvest Short Film Competition 2019; the Visual Art Open Prize 2018; the Nasty Women International Art Prize 2018. She has received the Goldsmiths International Response Scholarship Award 2017.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include out I side I in, The Smallest Gallery in Soho, We Are Not Ourselves, The Stone Space, and Jeannie Avent Gallery, London.
Olana has completed a residency and exhibited at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth and was shortlisted for the Platform Graduate Award in 2017. She has also completed residencies at Solent University and Sticks Gallery in Fareham.
Recent publications include Ludvig Rage, Inside Artist, and Trebuchet.
The full list of partners involved in LIBERTY are: Art Reach (UK), Altonale GmbH (Germany), Explora, Museo dei Bambini (Italy), CESIE (Italy), Teatrul National Radu Stanca Sibiu (Romania), Aalborg Karneval (Denmark), Center E8, for promoting lifestyles (Serbia), CNC Danse (Nathalie Cornille Company) (France), Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladiih (Slovenia), Den Selvejende Institution Swinging Europe (Denmark), Trafo House of Contemporary Arts (Hungary), European Educational Exchanges – Youth for Understanding (Belgium).