About

Olivia Lennon’s practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Each of her projects is grounded in a distinct area of research, and makes that which resists visibility perceptible. Her works excavate ancient things (archaeology, mythology, etymology) and look for threads connecting those things to now. The messiness of these threads generates a type of spiderweb thinking which functions as an oblique political critique. 

With each new inquiry Lennon adopts new techniques and materials allowing the form of the work to emerge in response to new thoughts and the physical labour of their articulation -- necessitating long periods of material experimentation, research and gestation. 

‘Apocalypses’ was painted in response to Lennon’s relational research project the ‘Office of Chthonic Services’ (OOCS) during which she interviewed over 90 members of the public about their conception of the poetics of collapse, and offered small bespoke gifts in exchange. More about OOCS can be found at oocs.xyz . 

Lennon was represented by BBA Gallery while in Berlin, and exhibited her collaborative project Red Box (with Jan van Schaik) in the Art Brussels OFF Program in 2024 and 2025.  Lennon holds an honours degree in Printmaking from the National Art School, and her work is held in private collections across Australia, Europe, the USA, and Hong Kong. 

Lennon has been the recipient of grants in Melbourne and Brussels, and has participated in numerous exhibitions, art fairs and residencies in Europe and Australia. She works between Europe and Melbourne, on the unseeded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung Peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

olivia@olivia-lennon.com

IG: olivia.concetta.lennon