Work
Olivia de Fleuriot Perry resides and works on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, as well as the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples. She mainly works with textiles, performance, photography, and painting. de Fleuriot Perry’s latest paintings explore the intersection of paint and fauna.
Through excessive photographic documentation, de Fleuriot Perry recreates layers of brush using a combination of drawing and painting techniques. Her drawing brings a frantic energy, immersed in washes of acrylic paint. Through this process, she explores the intersection of landscape and abstraction. The landscape becomes fragmented into colour, texture, light and shadow.
By abstracting the landscape through expressive mark-making and large, sweeping washes of paint, de Fleuriot Perry inserts her body into the work through care. Her body covered in water and paint as she stands barefoot on a large, unstretched canvas, using the palm of her hand to push water over her drawings. Her process is a form of cathartic collecting of images, achieved through repeatedly taking photographs of the same locations across different seasons and then painting the same photos over and over again.
