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Olivia Smith

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Olivia Smith Olivia.Smith4@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2022
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I am a multimedia artist primarily focused on motion graphics. I have always been interested in multimedia art as I think there is something very unique about combining the real world with the digital one. Photography and videography is a massive hobby of mine, which leads nicely into my field of work because I am constantly producing more content to manipulate and develop digitally. I think there is something really special about moving image that just doesn’t compare to still image. It allows us to stay engaged for longer and therefore make a bigger impact on the audience. 

My practice is all about RGB colour. I think it’s important to understand how we see and process the colours around us. I am extremely interested by the human eye and how it works to process the vast range of colour this world has to offer. 

Past Shows

The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

Peers & Collaborators

Diana Padovac
Diana Padovac
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#Dreamer #Historian
The digitally rendered image is divided into 9 vertical columns. Each column has a copper coloured circular shape. There are a series of blue hormonal stripes in each of the vertical columns.
Yazmine Downing
Yazmine Downing
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#Activist #Educator
A wooden frame painted in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and dark blue stripes. Inside the wooden frame are a series of felt illustrations. They show a young man with yellow hair and glasses. He has pink lips and a red jumper. The words Liam 20 are written as are a series of footsteps, a mobile phone, a number 15 in a rosette and two text boxes which say 'I knew there was something not wrong, but different' and 'oh yh, mom, By the way, I'm Bi'.
Cali Badham
Cali Badham
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#Dreamer #Storyteller
Installation featuring pink and yellow transparent plastic corset/dree hanging. An animation of a female character drawn in yellow is projected onto the purple and blue plastic background.
Jessica Overdijk
Jessica Overdijk
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Image shows a fictional toy store with pink fluffy toy with a blue face. The toys lounge is sticking out. The toy is sitting on a lilic box and the walls are painted pink. A blue fluffy toy can also be seen, as can a small brown bear with a pink stomach.