An art installation featuring colorful wire sculptures mounted on a white wall. The pieces include a red outline of a house, green and yellow structures, and various abstract forms, creating a playful and vibrant atmosphere in the gallery space.
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Olivia Bax: Double Take

– Gallery open 11.00–16.00 The Weston Gallery, The Weston

About Olivia Bax: Double Take

Double Take is a colourful new exhibition of new and recent sculptures by Olivia Bax.

Her work uses found objects, metal mesh and brightly coloured paper pulp to create dynamic sculptures and viewpoints.

In The Weston Gallery, one wall is filled with a series of newly constructed hinged screens to divide, enclose or define spaces around them. These objects are removed from their practical purpose and instead become devices for seeing, framing and connecting. 

A centrepiece in the gallery is a skate ramp structure, inspired by the artist’s own bus-top views of a London BMX park. Together with two smaller inverted ramps placed against the walls, this functions as a plinth whilst also being integrated into the architecture of the building. 

  • Two abstract sculptures are displayed in a gallery. One features a large red spherical head atop a colorful, cart-like base, while the other resembles a whimsical machine with various shapes and textures, both set against a white wall.
  • An abstract sculpture featuring vibrant colors like red, yellow, and green. It includes textured cylindrical forms and a transparent tube with a yellow liquid. The background is a blue grid pattern, adding depth to the composition.
  • An abstract sculpture composed of textured, colorful materials in shades of green, orange, and blue. The piece features various shapes and forms, including bowls and grids, mounted on a wall, creating a dynamic visual composition.

Colour is key to Bax’s practice and is an essential part of her making process. Recycled paint, diverted from landfill, is added to the dense paper pulp which forms many of Bax's sculptures. Chosen from available colours, the bright palette exaggerates the playfulness of the forms.

Salvaging and reusing materials is another important part of her practice, with discarded objects including musical instruments, wheels, kitchenware and shopping trollies used in her work. She often reimagines and rebuilds previous pieces by dismantling and reworking them, transforming them into something new. This process is partly driven by a need save studio space and materials but also subverts longstanding ideals of sculpture permanence.

Read the press release to find out more.

Exhibition Accessibility

The exhibition is located at The Weston, which has it's own dedicated car park, with disabled parking spaces available. It is an approximately 20-minute walk from the main Visitor Centre through the country park, down a steep sloping hill. Off-road mobility scooters are available to hire from YSP Centre free of charge by emailing info@ysp.org.uk.

There is flat access to The Weston, via a metal walkway at the front entrance when entering from the car park, or via gravelled pathway at the rear of the building when approaching from the Country Park. The restaurant, shop and gallery space have flat access throughout.

There is bench seating available inside the gallery space, as well as in the restaurant. There are all gender toilet facilities at The Weston, including a dedicated disabled cubicle with grab bars and additional access space. For detailed information on accessibility at The Weston, please see our accessibility guide.

Accessibility Resources

The following resources are available for this exhibition. If you would like to make use of any of them, just ask a member of YSP staff.

Large Print interpretation
Braille interpretation
Handling objects

Gallery Activities

Explore the work and themes of Double Take through free resources available to pick up in the gallery, including viewfinders, discussion cards, sensory objects, and books, to help people of all ages discover more.

 

A colorful abstract sculpture stands on a white pedestal, featuring vibrant blue, yellow, and red hues. In the foreground, a hand holds a circular, multicolored frame, partially obscuring the sculpture, creating a playful visual effect.

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