Olivia Grace Perry, MFA
Olivia de Fleuriot Perry is an artist and a mother who interweaves the performative gestures of motherhood in her soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. Olivia de Fleuriot Perry uses her own maternal experience of constant repetition to create small repetitive gestures of piecework.
Olivia de Fleuriot Perry earned her MFA in 2019 from Emily Carr University (ECUAD) as a recipient of the SSHRC Master’s scholarship (2018). de Fleuriot will be published in Issue 5, MILKED Magazine, in 2023. She is currently exhibiting in a group show, Cartography of Care, at Spilt Milk Gallery, in Edinburgh, UK. She was a part of a group show, Comforter, at the Fort Gallery, in Fort Langley, BC, and was published in Issue 3, MILKED Magazine, in 2021. In 2020, de Fleuriot Perry exhibited work in two online shows, Home-works, curated by Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, and Art in Isolation, curated by Dal Schindell Gallery, Vancouver, BC. She exhibited in the MFA Thesis Show at ECUAD, in April 2019. In 2018, she was a part of the SSHRC funded Leaning Out of Windows group exhibition at ECUAD. In 2015, de Fleuriot Perry exhibited a solo show, Cityscapes, at the Langley Centennial Museum, in Fort Langley, BC.
- MFA
Expertise
- Fine art, painting, drawing, sculpture, soft sculpture, installation art
Awards & Honors
- SSHRC Master’s scholarship at ECUAD (2018)
Recent Publications
- Milked Magazine, Issue 3 and 5; Home-works publication by Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- ART181 Visual Foundations I