OLIVE DIAMOND

OLIVE DIAMOND

(B. 1998, Los Angeles, USA)

Olive Diamond, a Los Angeles based artist, works across oil paint, clay, and glaze to explore the layered histories of migration, movement, and cultural record. Her practice draws on material experimentation and a wide spectrum of references, ancient to contemporary, infused with a sense of youthful naïveté. Through this fusion, she constructs surreal spaces where memory, history, and imagination overlap, transforming fragments of the past into poetic documents of the present.

I knew I wanted to use glaze as a medium for painting. Once I started to learn how to formulate my own glazes it really opened the floodgates and it is one of my favorite parts of my practice.

While I’m painting I almost feel like Im hallucinating visions of the next steps. Humming in and out of the painting and the real world, really enveloped in what’s happening physically in front of me and stepping into the subconscious of the work at the same time.

Photos by Laura Rose