Louise Olsen
Video tour: Louise Olsen – Manifestations
OLSEN GallerySeptember 2023
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Father’s legacy, nature’s wonder keep Olsen in the picture
The Australian, StyleAlison Veness
4 September 2023
The artist explains how painting will always be thethread that connects her with her father the lategreat design luminary John Olsen.
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Louise Olsen: Manifestations
OLSEN GalleryAugust 2023
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Louise Olsen Holds Her First Ever Solo Exhibition
The Design FilesMarch 4 2020
The co-founder of Dinosaur Designs lets the world in on another of her mind boggling artistic talents!
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My First Great Love
The Wentworth CourierTess Durack
27 February 2020
Dinosaur Designs' Louise Olsen first love was painting and she's preparing for her first solo show
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Louise Olsen to silence the naysayers with solo show
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
21 February, 2020
In art school, Louise Olsen kept herself in paints selling colourful t-shirts and resin jewellery at Paddington Markets, heeding the work ethic of her father, the celebrated artist, John Olsen whose creed was: "Be lovers, not others, be givers, not takers, us Olsens are workers."
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Milanda Rout
3 May 2019
Two more generations of artists are following in the footsteps of
patriarch John Olsen - and they're not shy when it comes to giving each
other feedback.
"Your grand-père is going to be watching!? booms
John Olsen to his 20-year-old granddaughter Camille Olsen-Ormandy as
the pair pore over an art book and discuss the importance of learning to
draw. Laughter erupts from one of Australia??s greatest living artists,
as it does from his daughter Louise Olsen and her husband, Stephen
Ormandy, the co-founders of Dinosaur Designs and artists in their own
right. ??No pressure, no pressure,? quips Louise. ??He is watching, he is
watching us all!?
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UNSW alumni Olsen and Ormandy stepping forward as the artists they are
UNSW, Art & Design9 January 2019
Louise Olsen recalls drawing with lipsticks during one of her first art classes as a young child.
Her parents, award-winning painter John Olsen and artist Valerie Strong, ran The Bakery Art School in Paddington, and Louise remembers attending the “quite exuberant” life drawing classes.
“I remember in one class, my dad said, ‘Look at this kid’s drawing’ and I was feeling so proud of myself because there were all of these big students, all drawing around me,” the UNSW alumna and Dinosaur Designs co-creator says.
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Olsen Ormandy: a creative force
Michael Fitzgerald
Summer 2018-19
The oozing amoebic forms, fashioned from resin, that have become signature pieces from Sydney's Dinosaur Designs since the mid-1980s, always seemed to signal a desire to transform into something else. As have their City Art Institute-trained creators, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, who established the iconic brand with Liane Rossler in 1985. Now the pair's lesser-known artistic oeuvre, drawn from a shared 30-year studio practice and on display at the Newscastle Art Gallery until 17 February 2019, reveals a modernith aesthetic as seemingly simple and slippery as those early resin forms, moving from intimate and ethereal studies in watercolour and oil (Olsen) to tumescent totemic sculpture and three-dimensional collage (Ormandy).
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En VOGUE Calandario
Vogue Spain2018
Louise Olsen features in VOGUE spain, to discuss her current exhibition 'OLSEN ORMANDY: a creative force' in collaboration with Stephan Ormandy at The Newcastle Art Gallery.
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Art in Force
GraziaNicholas Carolan
2018
"Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, two artists behind Dinosaur Designs whose three-decade creative partnership is the subject of a new exhibition, dissect each other's practice."
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The logic of beauty - The art of Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
Exhibition catalogue from Newcastle Art GalleryEssay by Dr Andrew Frost
November 2018
Our paths first crossed at art school in the early 1980s. As I was beginning my final undergraduate year at what was then City Art Institute [now UNSW Art & Design] Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy arrived in first year and seemed to be, even then, fully formed identities. Louise was of course a part of the Olsen family, well known bunyip art royalty, and Stephen, perhaps not so well known, but with the look and apparent confidence of a mid-80s rock star.
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