Oliver Abbott

Oliver Abbott is a Sydney-based artist whose practice explores the act of recollection as a creative process. Drawing on personal histories of lived spaces, he reconstructs remembered environments using digital world-building tools. Abbott’s work examines how memory distorts and rearranges architectural fragments, creating speculative spaces that exist between the real and the imagined. His approach, informed by a background in filmmaking, animation and architecture, integrates processes of virtual construction and navigation as a basis for painting.

Oliver recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the National Art School, winning the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Centre Nancy Fairfax Residency. The artist has twice been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize and was in the Salon Des Refuses in the Wynne Prize selection.