Art Collective WA
Olga Cironis
Australia
Olga was born in 1963 in Czechoslovakia to parents who had fled the Greek Civil War as refugees before moving to Sydney in 1971. She holds Masters and Bachelors of Visual Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts and currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.
In her artwork, Olga examines notions of belonging, cultural globalisation, appropriated histories and accepted attitudes on belonging in the Australian cultural and social landscape. Within her work are layers of research, collected stories, muted voices and cultural heritage. Her work is psychologically loaded with meaning, provoking and seducing the viewer, navigating them through history and inviting them to question our social and environmental connections. By engaging viewers to become part of her work, Olga questions the meaning of public and private space and the gender and social norms that permeate our accepted actions. Her artistic investigations are founded upon her Greek, Czech and Australian heritage.