Exhibition at Art2Muse Gallery

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 fibers, 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