Olivia J. Bennett 

is a writer, editor & critic.


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United Kingdom

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Hello My name is Olivia J. Bennett, and I’m an Australian-born writer, editor and critic based in the UK. My writing spans screen, sound, software and the systems that shape them. I’ve written for Variety, DAZED, Art+Australia and elsewhere, and contributed music coverage to The Big Issue Australia for five years.

I’ve held roles across editorial, programming and digital production for Australian arts and film initiatives [Melbourne International Film Festival, Senses of Cinema], and worked agency-side in brand and content for a range of industries [Netflix ANZ, FC Barcelona, Victorian Opera].

My criticism has been featured by Letterboxd and recognised through my participation in the Locarno Film Festival’s Critics Academy, Gertrude Contemporary’s Emerging Writers Program, Melbourne International Film Festival’s Critics Campus, and as a finalist for the Queensland Young Publishers and Writers Award in 2025.

GOSSAMER is my space for narrative development, editorial strategy and cultural insight. I work with creative, design-led practitioners and businesses to shape how their ideas are expressed, organised and understood.

I studied art history, curating and screen culture, graduating with First-Class Honours from the University of Melbourne for a thesis connecting the films of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab to Timothy Morton’s hyperobject, exploring cinema’s capacity to attune us to ecological thought and feeling.

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Olivia J. Bennett (2025)