Art Forum with Brigita Ozolins

Our books will bear witness  

Brigita Ozolins makes art based on the idea that language is a powerful cultural tool that both shapes and restricts who and what we are and how we think. In this presentation she will give an overview of her practice, with a focus on projects that feature books, words and writing performances.    

Dr Brigita Ozolins taught at the University of Tasmania’s Art School for almost 25 years. She is best known for her large-scale installations about our relationship to language, history and culture, such as Kryptos (2011) at MONA and A Tasmanian Reading Room (2019) for Detached Cultural Organisation.  Brigita has been awarded grants by the Australia Council, Arts Tasmania and Qantas, has had residencies in New York, Paris, London and Latvia as well as Tasmania, and has completed numerous commissions for public and private organisations including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the City of Hobart, Ten Days on the Island, Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, The State Library of Tasmania and the Soros Foundation Latvia, as well as MONA and Detached. She is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart.

Find out more here: https://www.brigitaozolins.com.au/

This forum will be in person at the Dechaineux LT on the Hunter Street Campus and will be live streamed to the Rory Spence LT on the Inveresk Campus. If you are unable to attend in person please join us via Zoom, Meeting ID: 896 9842 2079