Charles Olsen

NEWS / NOTICIAS

2013: Presentation of short film "The dance of the brushes" in International Biennial of Flamenco in Maracaibo, Venezuela

26 October 2012: ANTÍPODAS - 2 New Zealand Poets, recital in La Marabunta, Madrid with Ron Riddell and Charles Olsen
2012: Presentations of short film "The dance of the brushes" in Loikke Dance Film Festival, Helsinki, Circuito Internacional Brasil, Festival Flamenco Montreal and Planta Baja, Granada, Spain.
September 2012: Book presentation of "Sr Citizen" in the Albion Beatnik Bookshop in Oxford, England
July 2012: Presentation of short film "El Tamborero Embrujao" in Casa America as part of Tan Tan Poético.
April 2012: Presentation of "Agita Flamenco", poetry recital with flamenco piano and dance, in the S.G.A.E. Madrid.

December 2011: Presentation of the travel documentary "Agita Flamenco" in the Flamenco Short Film Festival, Matadero, Madrid
November 2011: Guest poet in Poetry Slam event in Café Libertad 8, Madrid
October 2011: Presentation of "Agita Flamenco" in the New Zealand pavilion of the Venice Biennale with poet Lilián Pallares and flamenco pianist Pablo Rubén Maldonado.

BIOGRAPHY

[ENGLISH] As a child I grew up in Aotearoa, New Zealand, where I made constructions from wooden blocks and Meccano, played in the mud and sat in trees. As a teenager I was taken to England where I somehow ended up on a fine art course at Middlesex Polytechnic. In 2003 I came to Spain drawn by Spanish artists and flamenco guitar. I explore my creativity and my relationship to this world through paint, photography, writing, music, talking with people, closing my eyes and smelling and listening … dance, reading, dreaming.

[ESPAÑOL] Crecí en Aotearoa, la tierra Maorí de Nueva Zelanda donde creaba construcciones con bloques de madera y el Mecano, me revolcaba por el barro y subía a los árboles. Mis padres me llevaron a Inglaterra en mi adolescencia donde al final me licencié en Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Middlesex. Vine a España en 2003 atraído por los pintores españoles y la guitarra flamenca. Exploro mi creatividad y mi relación con el mundo a través de la pintura, la fotografía, la escritura, la música, conversaciónes con mis amigos … cierro los ojos y percibo el mundo con el olfato y el oído … bailo, leo, sueño.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Deflamenco | Madrid
2011 Gloria | Madrid
2011 Centro de Arte Tom谩s y Valiente | Spain
2010 StudioStand | Madrid
2009 The Mess | Saatchi Gallery | London
2009 Rita Castellote Gallery | Madrid
2009 Sala Xaudar贸 | Monz贸n | Spain
2009 Sala AAP | Zaragoza | Spain
2009 Civic Centre Barceloneta | Barcelona
2009 Coral Estate | Pirats Art Network | Second Life
2009 Galer铆a Geraldes da Silva | Oporto | Portugal
2007 La Casa de los Jacintos | La Latina | Madrid
2005 La Plaza de las Artes | Madrid
2003 Windsor Street Gallery | Chertsey | UK
2003 New Zealand House | The Haymarket | London
2001 Plimmer Steps Gallery | Wellington | NZ
1998 Beatrice Royal Gallery | Eastleigh | UK
1998 The Riverhouse Barn | Walton-on-Thames | UK
1995 Le Moulin Fidal | Ville du Plessis-Robinson, Paris
1994 Forest Contemporary Art | Guildford | UK
1994 The Atrium | Whiteleys | London
1993 Quicksilver Place Gallery | Wood Green | London

Portraits of the artist and studio photo.