Cheyenne Olivier
Illustrator
During my residency at Eklavya Foundation, I intend to develop a picture book that I think of every time I travel across India, about the sheer range of modes of transportation simultaneously visible on a single road. Not just a book about cars and carts: vehicles and roads are a fabulous lens through which one can look at the social, historical, political, geographic, environmental, gendered dynamics of a place.
Cheyenne Olivier is a French illustrator, living in the Basque country. She graduated from the Estienne Arts and Design School in Paris and from the Decorative Arts School in Strasbourg. Her images, playfully geometric, address social and environmental issues. She collaborated with Nobel Prize winner economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee on several projects, including a children’s picture book about poverty, two books on Indian cooking and a textile art project in jamdani weaving. She regularly travels to India for research and to attend literary festivals. She pursues a PhD in children’s literature at the University of Tours.
