Redell Olsen United Kingdom

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Artist and poet Redell Olsen produces bookworks, hybrid poetic texts, films and performances.

Olsen's works explores the relationship between text and and visual media across a range of genres and forms. She often repurposes found visual materials from archival sources. She has research interests in artwriting, bookworks, conceptual art and visual poetics. Alongside her visual practice Olsen has published five collections of poetry and read and performed in the UK, France and the United States. In 2021 she was awarded DARE Art Prize to work on a collaboration with Opera North, National Science and Media Museum Bradford and The Tetley Museum in Leeds. Her 2018 film, Now Circa, 1918 was a finalist in the AHRC Best Research in Film Award. Redell Olsen teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. She supervises academic and practice-based Phds and directs the influential Poetic Practice CW MA.