Marilene Oliver

Marilene Oliver (born 1977) is a British-based printmaker and sculptor.

Marilene Oliver gained a BA in Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art,^[1] both in London.

Her research at the RCA involved scanning the human body.^[2] She has produced unusual sculptures based on live human bodies using the scanning technologies of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), normally used for medical reasons.^[3]

Marilene Oliver has exhibited her work in Gifu (Japan), Berlin (Germany) ^[4] and at Beaux Arts London in Cork Street, London (England), in 2003, 2006 and 2007.^[5] Marilene Oliver's work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum Print Room. It is also in the Wellcome Trust collection.^[3]

Artworks

• I Know You Inside Out (2001)
• Family Portrait (2003)
• Radiant (2005)
• Exhausted Figure (2006)
• Dervishes (2007)
• Grand Finale (2007)
• Heart Axis (2007)

References

1. ^ Royal College of Art: Alumni.
2. ^ Royal College of Art: Marilene Oliver.
3. ^ ^{a b} Oliver, Marilene, Resurrecting the Digitised Body: The use of the 'scanned in' body for making artworks, EVA London 2007, pages 15.1–15.10. EVA Conferences International, 2007.
4. ^ Marilene Oliver — Current and Future Exhibitions.
5. ^ Marilène Oliver — Beaux Arts.

Further reading

• Artist Statement, Leonardo, 37:5, Autumn 2004.

External links

• Marilene Oliver website
• SciCult: art and science biographical information
• Marilene Oliver on artnet

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