Olivia Strange - Untamed

Olivia Strange's multi-disciplinary practice spanning sculpture, painting, installation, moving image & poetry is characterised by a layered narrative and a highly visceral aesthetic. Historical hetero-patriarchal narratives are dismantled through re-writing ancient mythologies via a queer feminist lens. As a practicing witch herself, the historical persecution of witches & female identifying people- for their sense of self directed feminine power, intellectual & sexual freedom- is a recurring theme in Strange’s work as well as the landscape of fantasy & other worldly dimensions. Themes of pleasure, jouissance, desire, power, spirituality & escapism are explored by subverting universal codified objects, gestures and icons to portray an empowering image of queer subjectivity with the hope of cultivating empathy for continuingly othered experiences.

In Untamed, Olivia Strange paints two entangled female-identifying bodies with a sensual softness, surrounded by mythic symbols like snakes and fig leaves that evoke transformation, fertility, and ancestral shame. The fig leaf, long used to censor nudity in Western art and religion, is here reclaimed, pointing to the absurdity of sin and the legacy of shame rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition. With its rich, intimate tones and spiritual iconography, the painting centres queer love and witchcraft as sacred, offering a powerful act of resistance against heteronormativity and moral judgment.

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