Elizabeth Ogilvie
Elizabeth Ogilvie is an environmental artist working with a fusion of art and science, producing experiential installations using water and video as her main media.
Elizabeth Ogilvie is an environmental artist creating experiences for her public. Her practice is a fusion of art, architecture and science, and water and ice are currently both medium and subject in the work. She is one of the most significant artists of her generation in Scotland with a compelling vision and strong track record in realising projects of scale and critical public engagement. The success of Bodies of Water lies with Ogilvie’s commitment to her audience enabling them to interact with, experience/explore one of our most precious natural resources. Through series of installations viewer is offered opportunity to share in Ogilvie’s experience of sensorial engagement within environment. The effect of the work is then to affect. Bodies of Water/ Dundee Contemporary Arts. She aims to create an experience of seeing, drawing people in through senses.
As part of the project Out of Ice a book and a film by Robert Page of the same name were published.
Ogilvie is founder/director of cultural trust, Lateral Lab, that supports new art and pioneers cutting-edge responses to the environment through an ecocentric spirit of exploration, risk-taking, international collaboration. Work is guided by an interest ininternational currents in contemporary art and by a shared spirit that sees the social and transformative potential of creative collaboration and public engagement. Lateral Lab curates exhibitions and supports young artists/ architects internationally. With its first published, critically acclaimed Edition, A2B, launched, June 2015, Lateral Lab is developing a vibrant voice as contemporary art/culture publisher. The Trust runs an international residency for artists from Scotland and Japan, The Robert Callender International Residency for Young Artists based in Fife and Japan.
Her thinking is recognized through various invitations to take part in international conferences/symposia, notably, New North Conference, Anchorage, US, 2013, Reading Nature, University of Westminster, 2014, Vanishing Ice, University of Aberdeen, 2014, Beyond Perception, University of Aberdeen, 2015, Climate Change Conference, British Museum, London, 2016, Arctic Circle Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2016, 17, 18 and 19.
Awards
Ogilvie received a £25K Creative Scotland/National Lottery Award with which artist transformed a derelict dockside warehouse into a major installation for public engagement,
a recent major grant (£50K) for three years work on research/output, Out of Ice, grant from Arts Council of England (£30K) towards Out of Ice, P3. She received a Saltire Award for Art in Architecture, in addition to Trust Awards, further Creative Scotland awards and granted residencies abroad. Ogilvie has formerly acted as specialist advisor for Creative Scotland.
Exhibitions | Installations (selected)
2025
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+ , Bonn, Germany
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, Las Condes Cultural Centre, Santiago, Chile
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, Art Spot Korin Kyoto, Japan
2024
- INTO THE OCEANIC prints, Fleming Collection Group Show: This Fragile Earth, University of Stirling, UK
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Circular Thinking on Cultural and Environmental Sustainability Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik
- OUT OF ICE films, VANISHING LANDMARKS FESTIVAL, University of Westminster, London
2023
- INTO THE OCEANIC Installation and film screening, The Umbrella Art Centre, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
- BODIES OF WATER, video triptych, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Coventry Cathedral, Fleming Collection Group Show: This Fragile Earth
- INTO THE FLOE, Coventry Cathedral, Fleming Collection Group Show: This Fragile Earth
2022
- INTO THE OCEANIC Projections & seminars, Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Arsenale, Venice Biennale
2022
- INTO THE OCEANIC Documentary – Official Selection, Mysuru International Water Festival, Mysuru, India
2021
- INTO THE OCEANIC Installations/projections, Multiple site, COP26, Glasgow
- OUT OF ICE, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2020
- National Science Foundation Funding, US Film launch/ installation, Washington DC
2019
- MEANDER | Homage to the River Tay, Permanent outdoor film projection. Major commission Perth and Kinross Council City
- Out of Ice film launch, Ca’Dolphin, Ca’ Foscari, Biennale, Venice
- Film Installations, Alive in the Universe, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Biennale, Venice
2018
- Out of Ice, film and book launch: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
- Arctic Circle Assembly, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Book Launch, Ca’ Foscari, Biennale, Venice, Italy
2017-2018
- Cloud Gate, Artlink Commission, Forth Valley Hospital
2014/2016
- Print Programme, Glasgow Commonwealth Project Commission, Under Another Sky
2014-2015
- Out of Ice, The Secret Language of Ice, Solo Exhibition, Ambika P3, London
- Out of Ice, Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Space Osaka (CASO), Osaka, Japan
Group exhibitions (selected)
2020
- From Alba to Arabia, Contemporary Printmaking from Scotland
- Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
- Art Jameel House, Jeddah, Wejha Arts Center, Kuwait City
2019-2020
- From Alba to Arabia, Stal Gallery, Musca
2014-15
- Under Another Sky, Commonwealth Project, Aberdeen Museum & ArtGallery
- British Council Gallery, London, International Traveling Show
Public art | Other projects (Selected)
2014-15
- Under Another Sky, Commonwealth Project, Aberdeen Museum & Art Gallery
- British Council Gallery, London, International Traveling Show
Publications (selected)
- Out of Ice publication 2017/18, Black Dog Publishing, London
ISBN 978-1911164-23-4 - Below Another Sky British Council International Touring Show 2016
ISBN 978 0 86355 785 9 - Chusanan, Weissraum Kyoto, Center for Contp Art, Osaka 2007
ISBN 4 903047 01 6 - Bodies of Water, Dundee Contemporary Arts 2007
ISBN 0 9542026 7 8 - Screenprinting, Graal, published Thames & Hudson 2003
ISBN 0-500-51115-2 - Intaglio, Graal, published Thames & Hudson, 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-500-51343-9 - The Liquid Room, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Western Isles 2001
ISBN 0 9535814 6 2 - Great Britain, Elizabeth Ogilvie, Stichting Odapark, Contemp. Arts, Netherlands, 2000
- A Poetics of Water, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, 1999
ISBN 1-9027 34-06-8 - Into the Oceanic, Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist
ISBN 0 9535814 0 3 - in situ, curator, Talbot Rice Gallery, University Edinburgh
ISBN 1873108 19 2 - Oceanus, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 1997
ISBN 0 9002683 34 9 - Island Within, published Arnolfini, Bristol, 1995
ISBN 0907738 43 5
