About Olivia Brazier
Olivia is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in collage and drawing. Inspired by a youth living in the South of France, her work incorporates Mediterranean foods and the sunshiney life-style. Her main focus is on the relationship between women, food and sex. There are endless links between these themes which can be seen in language (ripe, rotten, peach... ) and in how society accepts and describes them. By exploring the connection between food consumption and erotica the line becomes blurred resulting in surreal imagery.
In her collages, women from vintage pornography magazines can be found playfully interacting with oversized foods. Whereas in her drawings the food becomes the sexually symbolised woman that poses suggestively.
Art history is filled with depictions of nude women, however naked women in pornography are not afforded the same admiration. Her work seeks to replace the shame and objectification which surrounds women's sexuality and appetite with humour and surprise. This change of narrative brings together women and the food they are so often objectified alongside, creating an image of beauty that forces the viewer to reassess their original judgment and celebrate them instead.