Olivia Tawzer is an artist from Chattanooga, TN. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2021. She began her tattoo apprenticeship in 2020 at Standard Ink Tattoo Company and received her license in 2021. She currently works out of Lunar Tattoo in Chattanooga. 

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Olivia's painting practice is based in storytelling and figuration. Her narratives emerge from a combination of memories and imagination and explore themes of gender, power, and belonging.

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Olivia's tattoo work focuses on line-based illustrative and ornamental designs. She created the Grief Garden Tattoo Project in 2022, a bridge between her tattooing and painting practice, which is an ongoing memorial tattoo and storytelling project that has had over fifty participants.