Miguel Olmo
Miguel Olmo
25 October - 8 November 2025
Exhibition opening with the Artist
to be launched by
Rhonda Davis
Senior Curator
Macquarie University Art Gallery
Saturday 25 October 2025
3:30 – 5.30 pm
Miguel Olmo
Artist in Conversation
with
Gary Sellers
Saturday 8 November 2025
2.30 - 4.30 pm
Miguel Olmo
Impedance (Limina Pt. II) is both a continuation and a departure from Limina, a series I first started in 2020 and presented in 2022. From the beginning I envisaged the work as a multi-part presentation. Each part evolving and expanding on the previous one, building a narrative beyond what each of the parts can achieve on its own. With Limina I was exploring transitional models; paintings that could become sculptures, sculptures that could become portals to the digital realm, and so on. Limina was a contemplation on the threshold between the physical and the digital as a space of potential where the self could be extended, translated, and transformed. It explored the interface as a site of promise and unease.
With Impedance (Limina Pt. II) the threshold, once a membrane to be crossed, has now become a surface that resists. It resists the pull of the technology with its ability to prolifically produce with little effort. Focusing back on the assertion that effort and attentiveness remain essential to meaning and creative significance at the dawn of an age of seamless, frictionless production.
Impedance does not reject the digital but interrogates its cost. It posits that creativity requires resistance to remain a deeply human, and therefore significant, act.
Miguel is a Spanish-Australian contemporary artist working across diverse media including sculpture, photography, video, sound and other two dimensional formats. Miguel often draws from his Spanish heritage and experience living in the diaspora to explore memory, time and ephemerality.
He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts (CoFA - University of NSW) and Bachelor of Visual Arts from Western Sydney University. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and abroad and selected for a number of awards including Rookwood Sculpture Walk, Sculpture in the Vineyards, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award.
Residency locations include Murcia, Spain (2017) and Penrith Regional Gallery (2019). His work appears in private and public collections including the Cultural Centre Ramon Alonso Luzzy, Cartagena, Spain, City of Ryde and Willoughby City Council. Miguel’s multi-modal practice often leads him to work on diverse projects and roles including education, arts management, and curating.