Olivia Punnett

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Curation

Drawn to alternative ways of knowing, Liv uses contemporary art to unpick, question, and to re-think.

Livvy has curated numerous Arts Council supported exhibitions and events including working with artists Dorothy Cross, Feral Practice, Susan Hiller and Tai Shani.

Within her curatorial practice, she seeks to raise expectations about what art can be and to celebrate the quality of art in non-central locations. She seeks to challenge perceptions of place and inherited narratives of what makes “extraordinary” art. Her attention to place, time landscape and rurality strives to raise audience expectations, question contexts and facilitate new perspectives.

Review for A Strange Kind of Knowing at Arusha Gallery

A Strange Kind of Knowing at Arusha Gallery London, Image Credit Damian Griffiths, work pictured Fourthland, Kate McMillan, Aimée Parrott, Susan Hiller, and Eleanor May Whatson, also exhibiting, Verity Birt, Holly Bynoe, Kristina Chan, Katja Hock, Coral Kindred-Boothby, Penny McCarthy, Chantal Powell, and Tai Shani, photo credit Damian Griffiths



Projects

2021 & 2022 A Strange Kind of Knowing, Verity Birt, Holly Bynoe, Kristina Chan, Fourthland, Susan Hiller, Katja Hock, Coral Kindred-Boothby, Penny McCarthy, Kate McMillan, Aimée Parrott, Chantal Powell, Tai Shani and Eleanor May Watson. Arusha Gallery, Great Titchfield Street London & Haarlem Gallery Wirksworth.

2021 Pleasure Ground Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Moore & Verity Birt. Ingestre Orangery

2020 re:rural-four contemporary artists un-learn and re-imagine the rural, Annalee Davis, Feral Practice, Deirdre O’Mahony, Pauline Woolley. Haarlem Artspace.

2020 Green Seed From Dark Earth, a solo show by Chantal Powell. Haarlem Artspace.

2019 Fieldwork, FourthLand, Tazelaar Stevenson, Michael Page, David Steans, speakers Glennie Kindred, Helen Jukes, Mary Wiltshire, Dr Chris Thornhill, Penny Newell. Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.

2019 Something Unusual On Cicchetti Community Event, curated by Lera Berest, Livvy Punnett & Daniela Hediger. Venice Biennial, Dorsoduro, 943, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy

2019 Collectivism Residency Haarlem Artspace Derbyshire.

2018 Where Rock & Hard Place Meet, Victoria Lucas, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.

2017 Internal Nebular, Dorothy Cross, Alastair Mackie and Liz Orton. Haarlem Artspace Exhibition, Guardian Guide Editors Pick 15/09/2017.

2017 Print and Works on Paper, Bronwen Sleigh, Joan Ainley, Beth Bowie and Geoff Diego Litherland. Mercia Wirksworth

2016 States of Uncertainty, Olivia Punnett, Alexander White, and Siân Williams. Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield.

2015 At The still Point, AGC Gallery Sheffield

2014 Stone and Water, Eddy Dreadnought, Sarah Pennington, Silvia Champion, Sian Williams, Olivia Punnett. The Grand Pavilion, Matlock Bath. Guardian Guide Review.

2013 Wirksworth Festival Graduate Selection

re:rural-four contemporary artists un-learn and re-imagine the rural, Annalee Davis, Feral Practice, Deirdre O’Mahony, Pauline Woolley. Haarlem Artspace. Image: Annalee Davis Wild Plant Series in the Observer Magazine
Where Rock & Hard Place Meet, Victoria Lucas, Haarlem Artspace, 2018
Internal Nebular, Liz Orton works, and Lapis Lazuli on plinth.
States of Uncertainty, Sheffield Institute of Art, 2016

Internal Nebular, Haarlem Artspace. To coincide with the Wirksworth festival, Dorothy Cross, Alastair Mackie and Liz Orton summon evocative reveries from the mysterious accretions of geological time.”

Guardian Guide, Editors Pick