Awarded the 2025 Baldessin Studio, OBSA Graduate Award

feeling/feeling is a site-responsive series of work exploring the sensory and emotive dimensions of landscape through photography, material, sonic and textural inquiry. The works form a unified portrait of three areas of remnant bushland – fragmented yet persisting within suburbia. They imagine a time when these isolated ecosystems were once connected, reflecting on their fragility while honouring their quiet resilience. These sites are essential to the species they support, and as spaces to build a community of care in their conservation.

I am an emerging interdisciplinary artist working in the expanded field of print, living and creating on Wurundjeri land. My work is grounded in ecological and environmental concern, an expression of duality of feeling – grief and loss, reverence and hope – in response to the Anthropocene. My research has led me to a focused interest in material agency and use of alternative or biomaterials to elicit emotional resonance through the sensory, with an intention to build connection and empathy to subject matter.

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The artist standing still on a small bush track facing away from the camera. It's an overcast day with muted colour. She is dressed in all black and wear over ear headphones and holding a recording device up to the tree she is standing beside. — Artist conducting a field recording. Photographer: Shaun Bryndzia

A detail shot of another piece of textural black wax (that looks like a piece of textrual, charred timber) held in the artists hand. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘lost fragments’ (detail), 2025, beeswax from a local rescue, foraged acacia gum, hand made eucalyptus charcoal powder

Another detail shot of the work - a sheer, woven fabric with photographic image in blue, to warm sepia tones. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘proof’ (detail), 2025, multi-toned cyanotype on tarlatan

A detail shot of a piece of sheer, delicate looking fabric with frayed edges and a blue toned photographic image of trees. A hand is gathering up the fabric and holding it from behind and can be seen through the transparency of the material. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘proof’ (detail), 2025, multi-toned cyanotype on tarlatan

A poem with soft grey text all in lower case with space and indentations. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘resting place’, 2025, original poem

The artist working in the field. A close up colour photograph of a persons hands peeling a piece of fresh clay away from a textural piece of old timber. The texture of the timber remains as an impression in the clay. — Working on site, creating a clay pressing of tree surface. Photographer: Shaun Bryndzia

A grid of 25 (5 x 5 columns/rows) of unglazed clay tiles with a highly textured surface. The tiles are suspended on lengths of string from a eucalyptus branch above and are spaced about an inch apart. The work has been photographed agains a white wall with the work casting shadow behind. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘paths’, 2024, 120 x 120 cm, white raku clay, waxed thread and eucalyptus branch

Two pieces of black, organically shaped fragments of wax with impressions of beetle eaten timber captured in its surface. The pieces are sitting on a plinth and leaned up against the wall. — Dionne Ogilvie, ‘lost fragments’ (detail), 2025, varied dimensions, beeswax from a local rescue, foraged acacia gum, hand made eucalyptus charcoal powder

Dionne Ogilvie