__NOTOC__ Marilene Julie Oliver (born 1977) is a British printmaker and sculptor.
Marilene Oliver gained a BA in Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA and MPhil in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art,Royal College of Art: Alumni . both in London.
Her research at the RCA involved scanning the human body.Royal College of Art: Marilene Oliver . She has produced unusual sculptures based on live human bodies using the scanning technologies of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), normally used for medical reasons.Oliver, Marilene, Resurrecting the Digitised Body: The use of the 'scanned in' body for making artworks , EVA London 2007, pages 15.1–15.10. EVA Conferences International, 2007.
Oliver has exhibited her work in Gifu (Japan), Berlin (Germany) Marilene Oliver — Current and Future Exhibitions . and at Beaux Arts London in Cork Street, London (England), in 2003, 2006 and 2007.Marilène Oliver — Beaux Arts . Marilene Oliver's work can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum Print Room. It is also in the Wellcome Trust collection.
Since 2016, Oliver has been employed as assistant professor in Printmaking at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Artworks I Know You Inside Out (2001) Family Portrait (2003) Text Me (2003) Sleeping Beauty (2004) Radiant (2005) Exhausted Figure (2006) Dervishes (2007) Heart Axis (2007) Dreamcatcher (2009) Orixa (2010) Split Petcetrix (2010) Dugout (2014)
References
Further reading
Artist Statement, Leonardo, 37:5, Autumn 2004.
External links Marilene Oliver website SciCult: art and science biographical information Marilene Oliver on artnet