I am a British-German sculptor living and working between London and Bratislava. I make sculpture in metal substrates, beginning each piece as a three-dimensional digital model before carrying it across a digital-to-physical threshold that fixes it, finally, in cast bronze. Fusing botanical and human anatomies into single, continuous organisms, I explore growth, regeneration and identity, inviting the viewer to imagine speculative ecological futures that reach beyond binary norms.

My practice sits at the meeting point of the digital and the material. Years at AB Fine Art Foundry have given me an intimate understanding of bronze casting, while my studies have equipped me with the languages of code, generative algorithm and 3D design. These include an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art (2024), a Graduate Diploma in Machine Learning at UAL's Creative Computing Institute (2022) and a BA in Fine Art Photography with Creative Computing at Camberwell College of Arts (2023). I move between them fluently, letting the logic of one inform the surface of the other.

In the studio, digital sketches grow into mutant forms in which masculine and feminine traits intertwine with botanical structure, neither ever holding dominion for long. I think of these objects as embodiments of a hybrid desire: a restless urge to slip fixed categories and inhabit fluid states of possibility and becoming. Cast in a material as ancient as bronze, the metal of myth, of relic and excavation, they hold speculative concepts in an enduring body, foregrounding the tension between permanence and transformation.

My recent sculptures, among them Out of Memory and Anima, ask what new ecologies and identities might emerge when growth and regeneration are allowed to override rigid frameworks. Whether cast in metal or rendered in pixels, each work strives to widen the imaginative space in which psychological, social and ecological systems can evolve. I continue to live and work between London and Bratislava, sustaining a practice that honours an ancient craft while pressing it into dialogue with contemporary ways of making: an object addressed to the future, drawn up out of the deep past.

ABOUT OLIVER

EDUCATION:

2023-2024 RCA (Royal College of Art), London, UK
MA - Contemporary Art Practice

2022
CCI (Creative Computing Institute), London, UK
GradDip - Machine Learning

2019-2023
Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
BA - Fine Art Photography w/Creative Computing

2012
Longroad College, Cambridge, UK
National Diploma Art & Design

EXHIBITIONS:

2024
Tate Modern, London
GENE_SIS (2023) Screening - Blavatnik Building

2024
RCA Summer Show, London

2023
Southwark Gallery, London

2022
Plus+ Gallery (CCI), London

RESIDENCIES:

2023-2024
AB Fine Art Foundry, London
Bronze Casting

2021
Digital Innovation Season, London

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

ODDA Magazine, London, UK
Wonderland Magazine, London, UK
Schön Magazine, Berlin, Germany
FuckingYoung!, Barcelona, Spain
Hunger Magazine, London, UK

LECTURES:

2023
CCI – (Creative Computing Institute)

SCHOLARSHIP:

2023
House of Fraser Scholarship