Online Exhibition Archive:

Olivia Normile

Dog-Eared Paradise

16 November - 14 December, 2023

This online exhibition was carefully developed by Olivia Normile and screen service over several months. The result was housed across multiple pages on this website. It included hand-drawn animations, clickable objects, bespoke web backgrounds, analogue video, photographs, drawings and audio works. The web installation brought Olivia’s work to new narrowed boundaries, allowing for thoughtful decision-making, considered online display methods, and playful and insightful new parameters for considering current research.

Dog-Eared Paradise is a gathering of handmade processes that consider the human-non-human relationship. An empathetic approach is taken to consider spaces for animal stories and biographies. An animal theatre is conjured, a liberation is staged.

Olivia Normile is a visual artist based in Dublin. Her multidisciplinary work is often inspired by elements of theatre and fictional storytelling. Through hand-drawn animation and installation processes, she explores gestural communications and non-human perspectives. She has received support from Dublin City Council and the Arts Council through funding and residencies, most recently an Agility Award in 2022 and 2021. Recent exhibitions include Matters of Table, PeripheriesPOST, Gorey School of Art, 2023, Artworks, VISUAL Carlow, 2023, Deliverables, Pallas Projects/Studios Artist Initiated Projects, 2022. Olivia is currently a visiting lecturer at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Dublin.