Olivia Pinkney

Olivia Pinkney is a self-taught English artist, whose work grapples with the vulnerability and tenderness of the human condition. With a BA in English Literature and creative writing from the University of Kent, Pinkney is interested in the stories within the body and revealing what is hidden from social conditioning. Through working with oil, acrylic and watercolour, she aims to create intimacy in the intensity and emotional complexity that every body and face holds. For the past 3 years, she has been exhibiting in London and Hastings, notably in Art on a Postcard, The Holy Art Gallery, Espacio Gallery, The Royal Court Theatre and The Hastings Arts Forum. Pinkney works through her own difficulties by pulling the pain out of the shadows and into the light and allowing the darkness to be seen. Pinkney is also an actor, poet and musician and continues to explore human consciousness throughout her work and lives in London.