Born in October 1966 in, Binche, Belgium, Olivier Deprez studied and learned comics at the Institut St-Luc in Brussels.
It was while making the first book, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's Castle, that wood engraving became his favourite medium.
The meeting is often the start, the implementation. Meeting with a person, a text, an image. In the case of the WREK project, these were two books L'absolu littéraire by Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Time, Work, Social Domination by Moishe Postone, and a Nancy strip drawn by Ernie Bushmiller. In the case of the HOLZ project, it was a meeting with Roby Comblain, engraver and scenographer.
Deprez sees wood engraving as an artistic process in its own right, from carving to printing. After exploring and experimenting for several years with the materiality of light papers that do not exceed 20g, the HOLZ magazine is printed on 10g Japanese kozo paper. The transparency of paper, thus, became the medium of the magazine HOLZ.