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As a dyslexic with attention deficit disorder I’m forever looking for ways to better myself outside of a classroom or library setting, and quickly. I have created many long walks with arbitrarily imposed restrictions for me to set out on whilst I figure this out. These walks have acted as research for my practice for many years. Frustrated at a lack of opportunities to exhibit, I put my ideas down into self-published books and began life as an illustrator. I’m interested in exploring walking as a creative act and how one might create knowledge from this. I seek out situations that might put myself or a project at risk of total failure and then create work telling you how badly that went. This has mainly been in comic books and illustrations but has expanded over the years to include animation, sculpture and architecture.
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University, Master of Illustration (currently studying part time)
Manchester Metropolitan University, Bachelor of Interactive Arts, 2001
Selected Exhibitions
2018
[[ Everyone’s Asking If I’m OK / No One’s Asking If I’m OK }}
The Icing Room, London
2017
You the Audience, The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
https://olivereast.art/#/you-the-audience/
Helsinki to Tampere, Helsinki Comic Festival, Finland
Drawing Reportage, Now and Here, Lateral Artspace, Cluj, Romania http://lateralartspace.com/exhibitions/drawing-reportage-now/
Take Me Back to Manchester, Manchester Museum, Manchester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mGPIfjuNXM
2015
The Homesick Truant’s Cumbrian Yarn, The Factory, Kendal
https://olivereast.art/#/wall/
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Walking With Comics, University of Cumbria, Carlisle
2014
The Fire to Say: Comics as Poetry, Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA
http://crl.winkleman.com/exhibitions/1492.html
2013
Sequential Investigations: The New Comics, Amelia Douglas Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012
Worded: Comics As Poetry, NK Gallery, Boston, USA
Selected publications
2017
The Lanky, self published
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/the-lanky/
Rolling Stock, self published
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/rolling-stock-1/
2016
Take Me Back to Manchester, self published
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/take-me-back-to-manchester
2014
The Homesick Truant’s Cumbrian Yarn, self published
https://olivereast.art/#/the-homesick-truants-cumbrian-yarn/
2013
Swear Down, Blank Slate Books. ISBN 978-1906653293
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/swear-down
2010
Leaf & Signal, Warren Craghead, USA
Berlin And That, Blank Slate Books. ISBN 978-1906653071
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/berlin-and-that
2009
Proper Go Well High, Blank Slate Books. ISBN 978-1906653026
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/proper-go-well-high
2008
Trains Are…Mint, Blank Slate Books. ISBN 978-1906653002
http://olivereast.bigcartel.com/product/trains-are-mint
2003
Allemenstratten, i3 ISBN 0-9542058-5-5