Works in Show
To be Updated After the Opening Ceremony
Artist Biography
Laura Olenska is a French born painter based in Wellington, New Zealand, where she has lived and worked since 2017. She is a self taught artist with a background in art history and cinematography in Paris. Working primarily in oil on canvas from her studio in Wellington, Olenska builds her paintings through layered classical techniques, while developing contemporary psychological narratives. Rooted in existential concerns, her work examines what it means to inhabit a vulnerable, desiring and often contradictory human condition.
Artist Statement
I’m interested in the moments where things don’t sit neatly together, where strength and fragility, beauty and discomfort coexist in the same body.
Working in oil allows me to build these images slowly, letting them shift as they develop. I’m less interested in telling stories than in capturing a state that feels real, even if it can’t be fully explained.
Sinking by Laura Olenska
Laura Olenska
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