Olivia Mcewan

London based oil painter and trained art historian marrying visual analysis of cultural objects and motifs within natural settings in an ironic commentary on how we continually attempt to frame and reframe natural materials within our societal ideals of aspirations and decoration.

Longlisted - Jacksons Art Prize 2026
Shortlisted - The New Emergence Art Prize 2021
​Shortlisted - The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021

Courtauld Institute of Art: MA Making and meaning of art in the middle ages (2011)
Courtauld Institute of Art: BA Art History (2010)

Barbican Library 2026
Raw Gallery London 2025
Minors, Colchester 2024
Oxo Tower Wharf, London 2023
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, London 2021
Southwark Park Galleries 37th Annual Open 2021
Smith & Williamson Private View 2016
Corpus by HRL Contemporary, St Johns Wood 2009
East Wing 8 Biennial, Courtauld Institute 2008-09