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

He plays with language, interiors and liveness to conjure idiosyncratic systems, producing sculptures and architectural interventions wrapped with confusion, mistakes and double-takes. The work often responds to sites and materials of institutionalisation, altering the constructed environment to raise doubts of definition, dislocation and utility. Recently, he has focussed on the development of experimental and performative tactics, particularly as this connects absurdity and institutional critique. This activity has included collecting and reprocessing nearby materials, such as inverting furniture, hydrating old paint, hydroponics and recording mice populations within the studio.

He is currently pursuing an MFA (Sculpture) at Slade School of Fine Art. He is a founding member of LAX (2024-ongoing) and 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) & Index Festival (2019). Previous residencies & programmes: New Artist Collective (UKNA, 2025), Sculpture Network (YSI, 2022) & Into the Wild (Chisenhale Art Place, 2020).