Matriarchs

Olivia Adams is a proud Wulli Wulli woman from and based in Meanjin (Brisbane) working as a dancer, choreographer and producer. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Dance from Queensland University of Technology and a Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Dance from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Olivia currently works at Blakdance as an Associate Creative Producer.

She has worked with Digi Youth Arts, Polytoxic, Karul Projects and Bangarra Dance Theatre’s youth program Rekindling.

Most recently Olivia has performed in Germany for Documenta 15 as a part of Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy, presented at Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance symposium in Calgary and will join the cast of SILENCE for Karul Project’s 2023 National Tour.

I’m a proud young woman who is an emerging Aboriginal artist from the Wulli Wulli tribe, located inland south-east Queensland.

I use art to convey and cover important topics such as Aboriginal lore, history, rekindling connections, tradition, research and modern challenges. These are things I am strongly passionate about and are reflected in my artwork. I also utilizes art to express my personal journey as I continues to gain understanding about my Aboriginal heritage and grow as an Aboriginal woman in a modern western society.

I am currently in my last year of studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at QCA Griffith University. My art style is a fusion between contemporary and expressionist with cultural inten created with an explosion of colour and life. I mainly work with acrylic paints, however I also come from a dance background and I like to merge the two visual arts together.