Olly Read
Touch (2025)
Soft Sculpture
2.5 x 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Olly Read (Impious Monk) is a multidisciplinary artist born, living and working in Limilinaturi/Devonport in Lutruwita/Tasmania. He identifies as a trans man and his artistic practice explores the experience of being human in a flesh suit via three dimensional explorations of the internal psyche. From baroque pearls as teeth and pantyhose stitched in frames as the 'skin-we-live-in', to pulsating robotics in soft sculpture: Read interrogates ideas of beauty, shame, pride, perception, gender and sexuality.

Read holds a Masters of Fine Art from UTAS (2022) after graduating with a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts with first class Honours (2019) from the same. He has exhibited at Devonport Regional Gallery, Sawtooth ARI multiple times, Plimsoll Gallery (UTAS), Powerhouse Gallery (UTAS) and The Long Gallery (Salamanca Arts Centre).

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