Olivier Rasir, born in Momalle, Liege, Belgium 1973, immigrated to Australia in 1995. Rasir has exhibited around Sydney and his works are held in private and corporate collections in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, USA, UK, Singapore and Belgium.

Oliver Rasir is a self-taught Sydney based artist. His practice emerges from the margins of consumption, where discarded materials carry the quiet weight of prior use. Working with found elements such as hessian, rubber, and vinyl, Rasir approaches these remnants not as waste, but as vessels of memory, labour, and transformation. Each material bears physical and cultural traces—frayed fibbers, industrial textures, synthetic resilience—that inform both the process and the final composition.

“I am interested in the redemption of waste, and the ability of that which has been neglected and set aside to find new visual possibilities. 

I engage directly with materials marked by wear and utility, drawing attention to the embedded narratives of labour and consumption that often go unnoticed. I approach the materials I use intuitively, both allowing the inherent qualities of each material—its weight, flexibility, surface, and resistance—to guide the development of each piece.” Olivier Rasir

Exhibitions

2023 L’impulsion – Art2Muse Gallery, Woollahra, Australia
2022 Vivienne’s Courage – Art2Muse Gallery, Woollahra, Australia
2021 Residue Matter – Art2Muse Gallery, Woollahra, Australia
2020 Recent Works – Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2019 Wild Man Dreaming II – Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2018 Wild Man Dreaming – Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2011 Open To The Landscape Group Show – Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2011 End Of Year Group Show – Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2010 Recent Works Solo Exhibition – Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2010 Summer Group Show – Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2009 Seasonal Group Show – Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay, Australia
2009 Primary Solo Exhibition – Brandling Street Studios, Alexandria, Australia

Media

The Design Files – Wild Man Dreaming 2018
Badlands Journal – 2018
Robert, Berlin, Germany – Photo Reportage + Interview, 2017
The Sydney Morning Herald – Style, Secret Sydney, March 2011
Vogue Living, Australia – Special Edition Before+After Autumn/Winter 2009
The Daily Telegraph, Home, August 2009
France 24 – Cable TV, 2009 – Personalities, France
Australian & Apartment Living Trends, Vol. 24 # 16 The Human Rights Defender, 2005, Vol. 14 issue 2

Collections

Olivier’s work is held in private and corporate collections in Australia, Canada, USA, UK and Belgium.

Donated Works

Newborn Care Centre (NCC) Royal Hospital for Women (RHW), Randwick
Muscular Dystrophy Australia (MDA)
Annual donation to Sydney Montessori School / Montessori Foundation