Oliver Malin

Oliver Malin is a British artist. He was raised and educated in London, where he continues to work. After completing his A-Levels he read Business & Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. After a debut solo show, he attended The Royal Drawing School and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Drawing. His professional practice spans Drawing, Painting, Film-making & Live Visuals. Notable painting series include, "We Are Disposable" an ongoing series of paintings used crushed cans as a canvas that acts to document, poignant "discovered" moments in a contemporary society. 

This project has taken him across the UK, Cuba and The USA. The first UK study can be seen in full thanks to a book of the series. Other notable projects include the series 'Take Away Dreams", which was first exhibited at legendary Kebab restaurant Marathon, in Camden & caught the attention of BBC London, Don't Panic The Evening Standard, London On The Inside, Culture Trip, Noctis Magazine, The Camden New Journal The Cover of Le Cool Magazine and was listed in the top three events in the whole of London by
TimeOut on a random Wednesday in December 2017

As a Filmmaker, Oliver's main area of focus has been music videos & documentary, noteworthy projects being his Direction & Production of "The Flowerpot Sessions" for Communion music which captured a week of folk music collaborations at the Flowerpot venue in Kentish Town, London. and features his now deceased Moroccan Tortoise Lionel in the opening shot, clambering across the bar, who was a recovering alcoholic at the time and had an extensive family history of the condition.

Music Video wise, he has made promos for artists such Bella Figura, Nabila Iqibal,
Bare Hunter Lovechilde, The Joker & The Thief and The Big Pink. His overall creative practice can be read about in this interview with Noctis Magazine. In Late 2018, he started combining some of his ideologoligcal approaches and interests in absurdist/surrealist humour into short video form, which found marked popularity on Instagram

References

External links
 Official Instagram

Category:Living people
Category:English artists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)