Olly and Suzi, Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, are two British

United Kingdom

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 artists who specialise in collaborative

Collaboration

Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...

 painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 of wildlife

Wildlife

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....

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Biography

Olly and Suzi originally began working together after meeting as students as the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...

 in 1987, and graduated together with a joint degree. Their collaborative mode of working became established during a scholarship

Scholarship

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 to Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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 in New York State during the period 1988 to 1989. Since 1993, they have taken part in more than 50 expeditions to remote regions of the Earth

Earth

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 to paint predators and prey

Predation

In ecology, predation describes a biological interaction where a predator feeds on its prey . Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation always results in the death of its prey and the eventual absorption of the prey's tissue through consumption...

 at close proximity in their natural habitat

Habitat

* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows*Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play** Space habitat, a space station intended as a permanent settlement...

s. In some works they solicit "assistance" from the subject in the form of pawprints

Footprint

Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes...

 or bite-marks. Their joint work has been exhibited internationally in galleries including the Simon Dickinson and Briggs Robinson galleries in New York

New York City

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, and the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

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 in London

London

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Suzi Winstanley currently lives with Blur

Blur (band)

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 and Gorillaz

Gorillaz

Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...

 frontman Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...

 with whom she has a daughter, Missy

External links

• Olly and Suzi official site
• Olly and Suzi biography, artnet
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• Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators, Storyville documentary