Oliver Thomas-Irvine
Lecturer, Fine Art BA(Hons)
Oliver Irvine is one half of ATOI.
ATOI formed a relationship in their early twenties due to a shared interest in the physicality, division and psychological boundaries within space, they went on to build a material driven practice through the construction of situational sculptural environments.
Within their work they aim to create shifting layers of connectivity and tensions; where image, objects, structures, situations and raw material can relate physically, politically or symbolically to the body and its present changing environment. Whilst their work is concerned by structural societal elements the core of their work stems from an interest in fractures that rupture within those ideals, contextually and physically. It is this state of physical or philosophical degradation that interests them and how material and form can be suggestive to that change. Through situational environments, they examine how form and by-products can suggest instability, collapse, or transformation-probing the fragile intersections between tectonic, architectonic, and anthropological forces.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Fine Art BA(Hons) | Falmouth University |
Professional Engagement
Independent professional practice
Group Exhibitions
2025
- Sediment of Sleep, Group exhibition curated by ATOI, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, Artist's include: Rachael Champion, Jack Whitefield, Rosanna Martin, Harriet Bowman, ATOI, August 9th-20th Sept
2024
- RELEASE, A group exhibition curated by Yotaro Niwa in the former production facility for surveillance, technology opposite the, Berlin - Hohenschönhausen Memorial site. September - November
- Copper, Tin, Granite, Clay, Pool School Gallery, Cornwall, September
2023
- FORGE, Rafael Botí Foundation, Cordoba, Spain
2022
- Chapter 6: The Return, Coundon Hall Park, with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, July-August
- Blue Gate, Gesture, Chapter 5 of Hand Earth Gesture Return, Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, Coventry Canal Basin, July
- Hand Earth Gesture Return, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire, with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, April
- The Rick, Chapter 2 of Hand Earth Gesture Return. Hatton Farm, Warwickshire. Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall, March
2021
- The Seed, Chapter 1 of Hand Earth Gesture Return. Film Launch with live drumming performance. Pangaea Sculptors' Centre with Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu and Jim Woodall,Daimler Powerhouse, 2021
2018
- Dialogues5, Newbridge Project with MDP, Newcastle
- European, Foreign and Domestic, Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, 10 Lancaster Gate, London, 8th June-1st July . ARTISTS INC - LOUIS ET MARIE AMAR//AMY AND OLIVER THOMAS IRVINE//MICHAEL IVESON// JACK BRINDLEY//MARC EINSIEDEL AND FELIX JUNG//THE COMMUNITY//ITTAH-YODA//OPHELIA FINKE n JJ LINCOLN
- TAV, Taiwan, March, 2018
2017
- Collateral Drawing Archive, UCA Project Space, Folkestone
- Collateral Drawing Archive, Margate Washhouse, Margate
2016
- Maybe Your Lens is Scratched? The Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, London
2015
- One + One, Lubomirov/Angus Hughes, London
- FT@ Sluice Art Fair, London
- Bideford Black: The Next Generation. The Burton Museum, Devon
- Plymouth Open, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
- Testing Tropes, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
- Monochrome, Beers Contemporary, London
2014
- In the Face of Collapse, ATOI & Jacobo Castellano, COMBO, Cordoba, Spain
- Office of The Dead, Collaboration with La Fragua, Belalcazar, Spain
- Collateral Drawing, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2013
- The First 11, CAST, Helston.
- Manhunt, Suspended Sentences,Turners Warehouse, Newlyn
- Crux Point, Cornwall Art Biennial, Halzephron House, Cornwall
- A.P.T Gallery. Creekside open, selected by Paul Noble, London
2012
- Extraction, Art in Action, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London
- Mutual Annihilation (Antimatter), Florence Trust , London
- Six Shooter Art Fair, Art in Action, Tate Britain, London
- Cull Gallery, Cage Cull, Florence Trust, London
2011
- Inland Fracture (Battles), Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
- Things That Fall, P1 Project Space, London
2010
- Imagined Land, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
2008
- Orchestrated Circuit, Live Art Falmouth Festival, Falmouth
Solo exhibitions
2021
- Holding Breath, Outdoor sculptural installation, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, UK
2019
- Inhale, Exhale, SAPH, The Bund, Shanghai, China
2018
- Speaking Between Somehow The Spaces, Solo presentation, Commissioned by Slate Projects, Averard Hotel, London
- Binlang, Gallery333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2016
- Monday Morning, OVERHEAD, To_Bridges, Bronx, New York
- Limen Locale, G39, Cardiff
- RROYA, Castor Projects, London
- Derailer Derailer, The Still House Group, New York
2014
- Accost Nascent, KARST, Plymouth
2013
- The Dislocation, Public sculpture, Co.Derry, N. Ireland
- The Feeling of Nothingness, Part 2 - Infiltrated Rank, ATOI & CULL
2012
- The Feeling of Nothingness, Roll 5269, ATOI & CULL
- End of the Valley, Pull of the Bull, La Fragua, Spain
- Foist, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
- Content in Collision, Anarch, London
2010
- Playing in Storms, Chinese European
Engagement with professional associations and societies
Currently working on a year long sustainable public art project and commission with a culturally diverse group based in Coventry for Coventry City of Culture 2021.
