Olivia Sterling is a painter whose bright, cartoon-like pictures borrow from cel animation, seaside postcards and children’s comics to look at race, gender and class in everyday British life. She studied fine art at the University of Derby, graduating in 2018, and took an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2020. She lives and works in London, and her first solo show was at Guts Gallery in 2020. In 2026 Norwich University of the Arts showed her work alongside a Francis Bacon painting. Charleston in Sussex commissioned her show Cold Spell in response to its Quentin Bell retrospective.
Olivia Sterling
Painter of comic, cartoon-like scenes about race, food and Britishness
- Born
- 1996, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Where to see their work
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Olivia Sterling, Charleston in Firle, Lewes
Until 7 March 2027