Brigita Ozolins

Dr Brigita Ozolins is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Tasmania. She is best known for making large-scale installations about our relationship to language, culture and lesser known aspects of history. She has received grants from the Australia Council, Arts Tasmania and Qantas, has had residencies in New York, Paris, London and Latvia as well as Tasmania, and has completed numerous commissions for public and private organisations including the Museum of Old and New Art, Detached Cultural Organisation, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the City of Hobart, Ten Days on the Island, Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, The State Library of Tasmania and the Soros Foundation Latvia. She is currently writing a novel about her mother's escape from Latvia during the second world war, which was long-listed for the 2021 Richelle Emerging Writers Prize and for which she received an Australian Society of Authors mentorship award.