Olivia Twist

Area: Battersea

Type: Artist / Individual

Art form: Art, Design, Illustration, Street Art

Carney's Community Mural: Don't Ask How We Are Cousins
Carney's Community Mural: Don't Ask How We Are Cousins
Battersea Bikes Mural
Battersea Bikes Mural
Battersea Bikes Mural 2
Battersea Bikes Mural 2
Battersea Bikes Mural 3
Battersea Bikes Mural 3
Battersea Bikes Mural 4
Battersea Bikes Mural 4
Brothers. Star Boys
Brothers. Star Boys

Biography / Artist statement

Olivia Twist is an Illustrator, Arts Facilitator and Lecturer from London with an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art. The key threads which can be found in her work are place, the mundane and overlooked narratives. Her striking visual language comprises of a myriad of esoteric layers informed by a propensity for human-centered research methodologies.

She is determined to make the arts, heritage institutions and arts education more accessible and representative of their local communities. Olivia has a strong interest in participatory design, relational aesthetics and documenting social history as it unfolds.

As a practitioner her aims are to provide her audience with 'the shock of the familiar' and to trigger greater intergenerational discussion.

Why do you love Wandsworth?

All of the amazing youth clubs and what they do for local young people.