EDUCATION

• 2011 - 2015 - Ph.D. Fine Art, Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton)

• 2010 - 2011 - MA of Fine Arts - distinction, Winchester School of Art, UK (University of Southampton) 

 

 

EXHIBITIONS (*solo shows marked by asterisk), AWARDS
2021 - The Stables In Exile Gallery, Featured artist, August 2021, London, UK 

2021 - ALL Landscape Competition, Fifth place for the painting Fields, Contemporary Art Gallery Online 

2021 - London Art Biennale, shortlisted for exhibition, London, UK

2021 - Las Laguna Art Gallery - Landscapes, shortlisted for final exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

2020 - ING Discerning Eye - shortlisted for final exhibition, London, UK

2020 - Painter-Stainers Art Sale - The Lynn Foundation, online exhibition

2020 - Sunny Art Prize - shortlisted for final exhibition, London, UK

2020 - The Collective, A Way Gallery, Canada

2017 - ArtPrize - Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

2017 - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize - shortlisted for final exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2016 - Utopia:Dystopia - part of FaB16 festival of contemporary art, Bath, UK

2014 - "Image-Text-Object", exhibition of PhD students, Hartley Library, Southampton

2013 - RAW, exhibition of PhD students from Winchester School of Art, 5th Base Gallery, London

2013 - "Painting as Research", The Paint Club, Beaconsfield, London 

2013 - Postgraduate Research Exhibition, the Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art

2012 - *'Utopias', The Y, Leicester

2012 - 'Roy's Salon Tea Party', the Fountain, London

2012 - Winchester School of Art Graduate Research Exhibition

2012 - 'Mull It Over', Brighton 

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PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS

2014 - "How to Create an Ideal Past: Nostalgia, Photography and Socialist Realism in a Post-Communist Context", paper at the collaborative AHRC funded project "Looking at Images", Winchester School of Art and Goldsmiths University, London

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2014 - "Looking at Images" - co-organising collaborative project together with PhD students at Goldsmiths University

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2014 - “Collapse of a Grand Recit? Images from Socialist Realism in a Post-Communist Context”, paper at the collaborative project "Working with Images", Goldsmiths University, London

 

2013 -  “Fragments of a Past: Socialist Realist Images in a Post-Communist Situation”, in: Behind the Eyes. Making Pictures, ed. by Beth Harland, London: RGAP & Camberwell

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2013 - "Between Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy: Nostalgia towards Socialist Realism", paper at International Euroacademia Conference 2013, Prague, Czech Republic 

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2013 - “Collapse of a Grand Recit? Interpretations of Socialist Realism in Post-Communism”, paper at ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) International Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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2013 - 'Fragments of a Past: Socialist Realist Images in a Post-Communist Situation', paper at the symposium "Behind the Eyes", Northumbria University, Newcastle

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2012 - Beep International Painting Prize 'Through Tomorrow’s Eyes' - shortlisted for final exhibition, Swansea, Wales

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2012 - "Art and Ideology in a Post-Communist Country: the Status of Fine Art After the Fall of Communism", paper at Winchester School of Art Graduate Research Conference

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2012 - Publication in FUSSED Magazine (01.2012), Winchester School of Art

2008 - Henkel and KulturKontakt competition, shortlisted for exhibition, Vienna, Austria

 

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