Olivia Hassett is a Dublin based artist who regularly works collaboratively creating live works, sculptures, and immersive installations. Olivia Hassett graduated with a Master’s in fine art Sculpture from NCAD in 2012. Hassett is the inaugural artist in residence in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department of Trinity College Dublin. Hassett and her collaborators developed numerous projects and were funded by TCD to create two exhibitions in 2017/18.

Hassett’s practice reflects her ongoing interest in engaging with scientific, medical and arts and health notions and methodologies. Trinity Olivia Hassett was awarded an artist’s bursary from the South Dublin County Council in 2014 to develop her project Art, Science and Medicine 2014/15. For the past four years she is artist in residence in Tallaght University Hospital. She was recently awarded two bursaries from the Adelaide Health Foundation to develop and facilitate a series of exploratory co-creation workshops and art packs for clients of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Recent solo performances include Safe space, commissioned by Livestock for the 2021 Bealtaine Festival. The Oregon Maple, series of performances with the Oregon Maples of Trinity College Dublin 2017/18. Commissioned by Anne Mullee Olivia performed Sampling, a series of four performances as part of To follow the water group exhibition, Dublin, 2016. Screened II, was developed as a solo durational performance for PAB Bergen, Norway, 2015. Hassett was a co-founder of pre form a group of six artists who created five live, interactive and collaborative durational performances during 2013/14.

Central to Hassett’s practice is her exploration of the visceral body. She is drawn to metaphorical and phenomenological notions of skin beyond that of a porous, liminal space between the inside/ outside private/ public boundaries but one that is openly provisional and allows movement back and forth along these edges exploring the unknown and creating a space for transformation.