Olivia Priya Foster (she/they, b/.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Foster’s work focuses on rurality, specifically in Argyll, where she grew up on a farm. Foster explores her dual cultural identity and the intersections of South Asian and Scottish heritage. Often working with sculpture, performance, moving image and sound. Foster’s practice deals with themes of displacement, queer rurality, sustainability, land, energy, migration and diaspora within the context of Scottish landscapes.

Foster graduated from the Glasgow school of art in 2024, receiving the Chairman’s Medial for ‘best in school’ for fine art and was nominated by the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), as a ‘New Contemporary.’ She was also nominated as a Visual Art Scotland (VAS) ‘shortlisted artist’ and has since won the RSA art prize + MacLaine Watters Medal and the Skinny’s prize. Some of her selected group exhibitions include the Royal Glasgow Institute, (RGI) ‘Exhibit: A’ (2022), Transmission, ‘Gridlock’ (2022), The Pipe Factory, ‘Speak’ (2022), UCL Mullard Space, ‘Edge of Darkness’ (2023), Strange Field at French St, ‘Da Leth’ (2023) New Glasgow Society, ‘Ma Bit’ (2023), the CCA, ‘Glasgow International opening Party’ (2024), the Royal Scottish Academy, ‘New contemporaries’ (2025).

With thanks to The Bridge Awards for supporting this residency. Alumni of this residency programme include Saturn Akin, Matthew Arthur Williams, Sekai Machache, Aman Sandhu, Ashanti Harris, and Rhona Mühlebach.