Nadia Odlum’s playful works explore our intimate and shared relationships with space. Inspired by movement, patterns and forms within the built environment, her sculptures, installations and site-specific interventions mirror and abstract our surroundings. Geometric lines are a common motif, marking a journey within space, real or imagined — a single line ambling from A to B; multiple lines dancing around each other, intertwining and intersecting. Other works incorporate reflection or illusions to disrupt our visual cognition. Central to Odlum’s practice is an investigation of our perceptual insights and how these can be activated to facilitate different, yet shared, experiences.

Odlum’s work has been shown in galleries and public spaces around the world. These include exhibitions at the Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and New York Transit Museum, as well as public art commissions for Urban Art Projects and Kaldor Public Art Projects. She has completed residencies at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, The Wassaic Project in New York, Palazzo Monti in Italy and Parramatta Artists’ Studios in Sydney.

Nadia Odlum’s Art Incubator solo exhibition was held at Station Gallery, Sydney in 2020. In 2021 Odlum will join Rydlemere Studios as a resident artist.