Olivia de Fleuriot Perry
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. Through repetitive stitching and mark making the boundaries between forms are blurred – like a collage of material clusterings that spill out from one another. From smaller objects referencing human organs to larger objects referring to creatures unknown to us. Olivia de Fleuriot Perry earned her MFA in 2019 from Emily Carr University (ECUAD) as a recipient of the SSHRC Master’s scholarship (2018). She was a part of a group show, Comforter, at the Fort Gallery, in Fort Langley, BC, in April 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 was a part of a two-person show, Art On Demand 1:3, at The Reach Gallery Museum, in Abbotsford, BC; and a solo show, Cityscapes, at the Langley Centennial Museum, in Fort Langley, BC.
