Olga Cironis in the City of Armadale
Artist: Olga Cironis (She/Her)
Work: You can’t really explain it, you can only feel it (2022 - 2023)
Location: City of Armadale, Western Australia
Community partner: City of Armadale
About the artist:
Olga Cironis is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the murky undertones and impact that history and memory have on personal and shared identity. She examines the notions of belonging in today’s cultural globalisation — in particular, appropriated histories and accepted attitudes on belonging in the Australian cultural and social landscape.
Within her work are layers of research, collected stories, muted voices and cultural heritage. Olga’s work is psychologically loaded with meaning, provoking and seducing the viewer, navigating them through history and inviting them to question our social and environmental connections. By engaging viewers to become part of her work, Olga questions the meaning of public and private space, gender and social norms that permeate our accepted actions. Her artistic investigations are founded upon her Greek, Czech and Australian heritage. These aspects are used to engage people beyond the familiar. Cironis holds a Diploma of Education, Edith Cowan University, a Masters and Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of Sydney. She is represented in numerous prominent collections nationally & internationally.
Olga Cironis. OUR PLACE. Sculpture by the Sea. 2014. Performance, interactive. SxS sponsored
Learn about Olga Cironis’ process:
Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright were collaborative partners in their Know Thy Neighbour #3 residency, working with the City of Armadale. The pair drew inspiration for their work from a series of staged encounters with residents of the Harrisdale and Piara Waters areas.
On Wednesday 22 March and Thursday 23 March we have two public program events to add depth and context to the currently installed Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition at Cullity Gallery.
The Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition catalogue is intended to be read as a companion piece to the works on show at Cullity Gallery until 25 March 2023.
Photos from the Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition opening on Friday 24 February at the Cullity Gallery, UWA School of Design.
Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition opens on Friday 24 February at the Cullity Gallery, UWA School of Design.
Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright’s interventional artwork Unrestrained Passion for Armadale has taken over the latest edition of the Examiner Newspapers.
The paper, which has regular distribution across the City of Armadale, City of Gosnells, and the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, features a double-page spread of portrait shots of residents to the Harrisdale/Piara Waters neighbourhoods, who have spent time with the artists over this month and offered their insight into their relationship with its changing landscape. The artwork, is also one out of a series of interventions that Cironis and Wright have facilitated with the provocation to investigate belonging within the social and cultural landscape of Armadale.
The quote “Unrestrained Passion For Armadale” takes from a reflection made by a local resident when considering with the artists their sense of place within the Armadale community.
If you live within the City of Armadale, City of Gosnells, or the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, you may have caught a glimpse of this image in yesterday’s edition of the Examiner Newspapers.
Together Cironis and Wright have been meeting with members of the Harrisdale/Piara waters community to gather stories and photo documentation, which will be slowly released over this month and later culminating in an exhibition at Cullity Gallery in February 2023.
Keep your eyes peeled for more mentions in the paper to see what more is to come.
Through Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright work with the community of Armadale.
Here, Olga shares an update.
Through our programming, we have the opportunity to work alongside many diverse artists to realise an ambitious series of public activations. In the Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, artist Olga Cironis has been collaborating with Duncan Wright to investigate the relationships that the community of Armadale have to their place of dwelling.
As part of Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program with the City of Armadale, Olga Cironis invites you to contribute to her participatory work: The Stories We Live By, which will explore the relationships that locals of the Harrisdale and Piara Waters areas have to their place of dwelling, and therefore, to each other.
As part of Spaced’s Know Thy Neighbour #3 program with the City of Armadale, Olga Cironis invites you to contribute to her participatory work: The Stories We Live By, which will explore the relationships that locals of the Harrisdale and Piara Waters areas have to their place of dwelling, and therefore, to each other.
Over the next weeks, we’ll be introducing our Know Thy Neighbour #3 artists, along with their community partners.
Here, we introduce Olga Cironis who will be working with the City of Armadale.