Oliver Getley is an interdisciplinary artist working between London & Leeds. His practice is concept & research driven. He creates sculptural encounters through a ‘reverse engineering’ of objects & sites, often using formal approaches to found material. He uses collaborative & improvisatory techniques to experiment across projects using assemblage, sound, technology & site-responsive exhibition making.

‘Site Built’ (2023) explored the rapid gentrification of Mabgate, Leeds. He developed performance workshops with local students to co-create instruments & scores, & then re-designed those prototypes as kinetic sculptures that spread throughout the gallery. Since, he has has moved towards ideas of experimental & performative tactics - tentatively named, magic - within the studio. He works with language, interiors & liveness to conjure scenarios of confusion, dislocation & defamiliarisation, particularly as this connects art to institutional critique.

He is a founding member of LAX (2024-ongoing) & Freehold Projects (2019-20), artist-led programming groups operating within Leeds. His work has been included in exhibitions across the UK, including New Contemporaries at South London Gallery & MIMA (2026), Cubitt (2026), General Practice (2026), Leeds Art Gallery (2023), Eastside Projects (2022) & Camden Art Centre (2022). Previous residencies & programmes: UKNA’s New Artist Collective (2025), YSI Sculpture Network (2022) & Into the Wild (2020).