email: olivertirre @ gmail.com
lives and works in situ
What’s going on? at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin 2026
Removal of a square of paint from an exhibition wall 2026 paint, walnut, drinks can ring pull and keyhole cover
Thought 2015 walnut
Double Vision 2026 stainless steel pipe, gel coat on walnut, water and drinking glass
a tree planted in the Mies van der Rohe Haus garden 2026 walnut saplingWhat’s going on? Curated by Dennis Brzek - includes Dora Budor, Clara Hausmann, Samuel Jeffery, Tam Ochiai, Melvin Way, Oliver Tirré, Constantina Zavitsanos
Photography: Klemens Renner
Analogue of a Straight Line at Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London 2026
Thought 2015 walnut
Double Vision 2026 stainless steel pipe, gel coat on walnut, water and drinking glassAnalogue of a Straight Line includes Alison Wilding, Oliver Tirré, Steven Pippin, Lea Andrews
Granular at Chequers, London 2025
The Thinking Thing 2025, uranium glass necklace, plastic sphere, thread, wire and UV torch
The Space 2025 light reactive paint on maple
Measurement 2025 light reactive paint on maple
Here 2023 larch, wenge, beeswax and titanium buff
Zone 2 2024 iroko, wenge and beeswax
Pasta X 2025 stelline pasta and maple
A cardboard box of a duck down duvet is wrapped in a used hessian sack. On the objects left exterior side, a rectangle in the hessian has been cut out; revealing a photograph documenting a flock of ducks mid flight, printed on the cardboard. The entire object has been coated in multiple layers of white gesso. It is sited on the centre of the only temporary wall of the space 2025 cardboard, hessian, gesso, mica powder and plywood
The Gap at TG, Nottingham 2025
Now 2025 Coral, bubble and smoke machine, remote plug
Where is the edge of the object? 2025 UV cured gel coat on wood
Aura 2025 UV cured gel coat on alunimium corner profile
No title 2025 A cube of dog hair, 1:16 scale of TG’s gallery 2
States of America 2017 screws and gloveEvery screw that secured each Absolute Ryman Hanger fixing to each framed photograph of the States of America exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary; stored in the closest receptacle on site.
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Shit Techno (with Jason Evans) at WC2E 9HA, London 2025
Shit Techno 2025 audio recording of metronomes in waste pipes, overlayed with reese bass. Paint, plywood, wood, felt, hardware, electronics
Nothing 2025 the dust of a destroyed work, walnut tray
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
2023 field recording of cat purring, subwoofers and hardware 
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery, Installation Views, 2023
no title 2022 Cut chair and rock
no title 2022 Cut wall, milled steel disk made to the proportions of the plug socket outlet of the space, engineering clamps, felt
cube of dog hair and window 2023 one years worth of dog hair compressed into a cube shape via a former, with no binding agent
Canal 2023 multi-cell speaker horns and drinking glasses
two brains 2022 epoxy and one memory stick containing John Smith films.
An excavated square following the dimensions of a standard width of sheet material.
Institution 2023 corals and existing chairs borrowed from the site of presentation 
Exit 2023 Y balloon in this space (Ronald and Rita McAulay gallery, Royal Academy of Arts)The shape of the balloon traces the direction of the passageways entering and exiting the space.
no title 2023 extractor, bird whistles, computer and timer
and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and 2023 epoxy and sponge
no title 2022 bbq charcoal dust, muslin and wood
Christmas Party 2022 @ Royal Academy Schools
Texture 2021 perspex and glue
Volume 2021, perspex and glue
825 x 400 x 977 mm
Living Units ii 2018 Lead primer, plywood and felt
825 x 356 x 762 mm
Western Standards 2018 @ TG
w/ Barbara Laws, Lawrence Leaman, Ghislaine Leung, Dana Munro, Alan Ruiz, Oliver Tirré
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w/ Alison Lloyd @ TG
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Dust 2015 Sandings and scrapings of the entire surface of a painting in a wood and gesso tray
no title 2016 Bronze, potassium sulfate, water and glass
The work includes the total distance walked to obtain all materials that constitute to the object.
The work is 'care'; the evaporation of the water and need to refill (responsibility of the owner).
The work is the moment of refraction.
no title 2015 bronze, water and glass
no title (negative) 2016 Medium format negative and invisible sellotape on window.
The negative and sellotape is not the work. The work is an exchange through passage of light, the distance between the viewers gaze and image.
Makapansgat 2012 stone
no title (extension) 2015 Bronze
The work is made up of an edition of 3 bronze casts of a ‘1:50 Scale Model of My Studio Space'. The work becomes active when all 3 pieces come together from their respected locations. Each take on their own patina from the air and environment they occupy. The work is geographical distance, separation and the coming together of the material.
1:50 scale model of my studio space 2014, oak
Idea 2015 polyester resin, wood and notebooks
Thought 2015 walnut
for alma, 2016 @ 2 Queens
copper plates 2021 (project with Matthew Peers)
dry point etchings on found copper plates, free photocopy edition of 25 per plate, existing cabinet.
Royal Academy Schools, London
contributing artists: Matthew Peers, Nicola Gunnarsson, Rachel Hobkirk, James Lomax, Billy Smith-Morris, Kobby Adi, Daniel Davies, Millie Layton, Luke Samuel, Oliver Tirré
Alison Lloyd - Runner Beans (1983-2019) @ One Thoresby Street, Nottingham 2019
Education 2016 oil and gesso on walnut
1:50 scale model of my studio space 2014 greyboard, dirt and masking tape
Studio model in bronze 2015 bronze and beeswax
Studio model in bronze with black patina 2015 bronze and sulphur 
The pencil of my snow sculpture teacher Mr Do. Unused since I took it from him 2011 (2014) 1:1 scale photograph, pencil, bespoke clip frame
Small Rome @ Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy 2014
CV
Oliver Tirre (b. 1989, Nuneaton) lives and works in London
Education
2019-2023 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools
2009-2012 BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
Solo Exhibitions
2025. Granular, Chequers, London
2025. The Gap, TG, Nottingham
2016. For Alma, 2 Queens, Leicester
2016. I am so heavy, Castor Projects, London
2015. ‘I guess, anything can become interesting if you look at it long enough’, Syson Gallery, Nottingham
Select Group Exhibitions
2026. If light is scare then light is scare (2 person show with Lynn Fulton), Cubitt Invites, London
2026. What’s going on? Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
2026. Analogue of a Straight Line, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2025. Shit Techno (2 person show with Jason Evans), WC2E9HA, London
2021. Attitudes of the Unruly, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
2021. Governmental Fires, Futura, Prague
2018. Western Standards, TG, Nottingham
2016. good things come... The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2015. Forming Thoughts, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
2014. SMALL Rome, Frutta Gallery, Italy
2014. Attic, Hotel MariaKapel, Holland
2014. Vivarium, Model, Liverpool
2013. Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Residencies
2019. The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
2019. The Ampersand Foundation Residency, Wigwell Lodge, Wirksworth
2014. Hotel MariaKapel, Holland
2014. Summer Lodge, Nottingham
2011. Harbin Engineering University, China
Organised Exhibitions
2021. copper plates with Matthew Peers, Royal Academy Schools, London
2019. Alison Lloyd - Runner Beans (1983-2019), One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
2019. 10 Years. One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
2019. Anna McQuillin - Ely, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
Ground - co-curated with Alice Gale-Feeny
2016. Sean Edwards, Lynn Fulton Adrian Schindler & Eulàlia Rovira and Lucy Vann, Turf Projects, London
2015. Paul Housley and John Smith, ATTIC, Nottingham
2015. Simon and Tom Bloor and Jim Howieson, ATTIC, Nottingham
2015. Amy Pickles and Townley and Bradby, ATTIC, Nottingham
Talks
2016. Artist Talk, Turf Projects, London
2015. Opening Out, 2 Queens, Leicester
2013. The Reading Room - discussing Rhizomes in philosophy and contemporary art practice, Syson Gallery, Nottingham
2013. Powowow, An evening of artist talks with Sean Edwards, Sean Cummins and Oliver Tirre, ATTIC, Nottingham
Other
2016. Practice Surfaces, Manchester Contemporary w/ Syson Gallery
2015. Multipled Art Fair with Used Paper, Christies, London (curated by Hilary Crisp)
2011. 16th International Snow Sculpture Competition, Sun Island, Harbin, China
2011. 3rd International Snow Sculpture, Harbin, China