OLIVE DIAMOND

Informed by real oral histories from her family and imagined versions that expand on these narratives, Olive Diamond’s work considers a wide-lens view of migration and movement through landscape, tableau, and portraiture. She delves into these tales of displacement and passage to explore profound depths of human experience—love and loss, fate and coincidence. Diamond places her subjects in abstract, almost hallucinatory landscapes, exploring ever resonant questions about who is remembered, what traditions are passed on, and where is home? She looks to the past to gain perspective and wisdom for how to move forward along in her journey through the present. Working intuitively with colour, mixing her own glazes, the works retain an aura of chance and mystery; highly seductive they are born through an unfolding process of discovery and reaction.