Olivia Bill
The Treachery of Images (This is not a Gag)
Painting
2026
Oil on canvas
20 x 24"
The Treachery of Images (This is not a Gag) appropriates an 1970s advertisement selling a perfume. The work explores the violence embedded in mass images.
Work by
Olivia Bill
Multidisciplinary
“Appropriating commercial photographs from the 1950s-1970s, my work explores ideas surrounding gender, power, violence and desire. My work aims to question these highly constructed photographs,...” [More]