ABOUT
I’m Olivia, a visual artist, researcher, Costume Designer and Production Designer.
Based in the North West of England, I have 10+ years’ experience in practice-based and academic research within the arts.
I have worked extensively in music video and short film. My production and costume design work has been screened at numerous BAFTA and BIFA accredited film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Aesthetica, MANIFF, Bolton and Norwich.
Originally from a Fine Art background, my knowledge of both the history and theory of art heavily inform my approach to visual language within film. Specialist skills include set decoration and design, graphic design, prop buying and making, styling, print and animation.
I have previously been published in the Journal for Artistic Research and have exhibited both nationally and internationally. My research topic centres on the use of my own methodology, Line, a mimetic, performative process of drawing and writing that involves the creation of fluid and interdependent text-image forms and visual poetry. It is a vehicle to act out the rhythms of OCD, anxiety, rage, compulsion, humour and play.
EDUCATION
PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University (2019-25);
MA Print at Royal College of Art (2017-19);
BfA Fine Art at University of Oxford (2013-16)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
PICKLEWORMS, P3 Annihilation Eve, Manchester (2025) I Am Destroy, K-House Gallery, Manchester (2024)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Observers & Makers, The Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead (2023), Juncture, Brampton Museum, Newcastle-under-Lyme (2022), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London (2021), Works on Paper & Landscape Art, The Brick Lane Gallery, London (2021), The Clifford Chance Printmaking Purchase Prize, Clifford Chance LLP, London (2019), Marching Through The Fields, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London (2018), Myth of Lviv, Stanislaw Lem Cultural Centre, Lviv (2018) The Masters: Screen and Stone, Bankside Gallery, London (2018), The Open Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2017), Echoes of Queen Street, The Wedgwood Institute, Stoke-on-Trent (2016) The Red Mansion Art Prize, Kendrew Barn, Oxford (2016)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and Media, Venice 2018, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (First Grant Recipient) 2017, The Royal Drawing School Residency, Dumfries House 2017, The Red Mansion Art Prize 2016
RECENT SLATE | Full slate available on request |
VANCE JONES – SELF DEFENCE | Cosmosquare Films | Dir. Beth Rowland | PRODUCTION DESIGNER & COSTUME DESIGNER (in post)
POST | Dir. Jo Lane | CutJ Productions | ART DIRECTOR (in post)
END CALLING / Dir. Beth Rowland | Odd Digital | PRODUCTION DESIGNER & COSTUME DESIGNER
2025 (UK Premier MANIFF 2025)
BIOLOGY | Dir. Oz Arshad | Lind Films | PRODUCTION DESIGNER
2025 (UK Premier MANIFF 2025)
GOBSTOPPER | Dir. Jo Lane | Casey Shaw, Little Stitch Productions | PRODUCTION DESIGNER
2024 (UK Premier MANIFF 2024)
BURY THE DOGS | Dir. Beth Rowland | Cosmosquare Films | PRODUCTION DESIGNER & COSTUME DESIGNER
2023 (Int Premier Clermont-Ferrand 2024, UK Premier Bolton 2023)