Urban + Rural Interventions

Location is key to Olivia Steele’s poignant public interventions. Urban, desolate, rural, cavernous, sacred, or wild: each setting becomes a stage for her distinctive style of performance art. These spontaneous artistic happenings have become iconic truisms that serve as an unexpected intrusion of truth and beauty. Consider it a personal invitation to self-reflect.

Her intimate phrases are fused together in neon light, sparking a unique dialog between language and its environment. Steele’s interventions have appeared across the world, staged in a myriad of settings and scenarios, ever pushing the limits of the fragile and high voltage medium. The extensive collection of urban and rural interventions featured here remain a true symbol of creative will.