BALTICA! Artist Group
JüRI ARRAK / ARTIST - SPECIAL GUEST
Jüri Arrak (born 1936 in Tallinn) is a legend of Estonian contemporary art, one of the country's most appraised and beloved artists. While his oeuvre is highly versatile, including artistic metalwork, carpets, installations, happenings, he is best known for his paintings and prints.
text: noar.eu/en/artist/juri-arrak/
photo: Daisy Lappard
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JUDE COWAN MONTAGUE / PRINTMAKER & CASTER
I am exploring my heritage of East Prussia and Latvia and have been working in Estonia and Finland on the musical history, folklore and landscape. I am a printmaker, a poet and an audio artist who is energised by metal and primary materials and invisible forces of electro-magnetism, mindwaves and radiation.
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TRIINU SOIKMETS / NARRATOR
I am born in Estonia although my roots go back to Finland, Russia and gypsy tribe. I am a freelance curator and writer, who is interested in socio-psychological context of visual culture. /---/ I have studied philosophy, marketing and communication, literature, art science and art therapy, have taken courses in painting, drawing, ceramics, and - from time to time - express myself through narrative photography.
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RIITTA HAKKARAINEN / SCENOGRAPHER
Riitta Hakkarainen is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer with a background in scenography and art direction in cinema and theatre. Her work uses the medium of theatricality to create environments that explore aspects of the human condition. The aesthetic is used as a tool to shape a microcosm that suggests new interpretations and
stories.
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NATALIA JEZOVA / MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
Natalia Jezova’s art has been exhibited internationally, and addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues. She communicates in a wide variety of media including photography, film and installation. Natalia is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.
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CASSANDRA MAHONEY / PAINTER
Cassandra’s familial background intensifies her engagement with the war history in the Baltic region, and the response of the urban and natural landscapes to these man made actions. She is a landscape and portrait painter who works to a large scale using oil paints. She has exhibited in New York, Sidney, London, Paris, Berlin and Venice. Cassandra is currently working on a number of projects that primarily focus on the imprint of history on the natural landscape - specifically the shifting balance of dominance between man and nature.
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VERONICA SHIMANOVSKAYA / ARTIST
A multi-disciplinary artist, Veronica's practice emerged from painting to installation and digital media. She was Born in St Petersburg, but lived in San Francisco, Boston, London and after receiving her Doctorate, relocated to the San Francisco Bay area. The diary of micro events constitutes her art-practice, and create a liminal reality of ‘just a moment ago’ that can be traced by the echoes of the invisible, and the imprints it leaves on the beings and places. She collaborated with her cousin Natalia Spigina who lives in St. Petersburg. Veronica is a founder of ephemereye.com, a digital platform and a gallery that supports moving image art and artists.She exhibits internationally from Japan to San Francisco.
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MANDY PROWSE / MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
Mandy Prowse works in a variety of media including drawing, photography, installation and textiles. Mandy’s most recent work has been mainly installation based, using found objects to create stories from the mundane, with everyday domesticated objects. She is exploring her relationship with her Latvian Grandmother, Natalija Lovett-Turner who died 30 years ago. ‘I was 28 when Nata died. I gave up painting because I was too heartbroken to continue. I am embarking on a creative journey across an unknown landscape and yet full of memories, left by Nata in her paintings and writings.’
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SILJA MANNINEN / MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
Silja Manninen is a fashion and textile designer with an interest in creating visually powerful, participatory works exploring themes revolving around social conscience. Her career as a head designer for an international brand as well as running her own fashion label have evolved into artistic collaboration, academic practice and education. Silja's work has been shown internationally. As a creative, storytelling and ethical use of techniques and materials are integral to her practice.
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MERILIIS RINNE / PAINTER
Meriliis Rinne alias MERU is an Estonian artist living and working in UK. She first studied law
at the University of Tartu, which deepened her interest in paradoxes and social pressure,
i.e., topics that she attempts to solve now as a painter. Her main medium is painting but she
currently explores sculpture, film, photography and performance.
Meriliis likes diversity of material, subject and form. Her eclectic series of
works are distinguished by the very lack of a uniformed organising principle, maybe because
of her background having grown up at the end of the soviet era which was itself really
uniformed matchbox environment.
She favours acrylic paints and oils but also using what she can from the environment to
recycle - from newspapers or burlap coffee bags to electronic pieces to make art.
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GZILLION ARTIST / SCULPTOR
Gzillion Artist is a London artist who primarily works in minimalist contemporary sculpture. Inspired by architecture, machinery and landscape, his trademark style of circular sculptures are named Rototypes, however often works in different media such as photography, film and installation work. Gzillion has exhbited in over 20 independent group shows in London and at the 3 most recent Venice Biennale's with Curator Vanya Balogh.
Instagram - Gzillion Artist
ANN GRIM / CROSS-MEDIA ARTIST
Ann Grim is a cross-disciplinary artist with a futuristic vision.
She grew up between Buenos Aires, Paris, Cape Town, Montevideo and London where she currently lives and works. She explores the possibility of different faraway futures and continues to evolve internationally with exhibitions in Paris, Miami, London, Venice Biennale, and Oaxaca.
Between dreams and reality, she explores the possibility of different futures and the scenarios of eternal life, evolution of humankind, and space migration. She expresses the intricacy of social, urban and cultural issues such as the impact of global climate change on humankind, bio singularity, reproduction and the fabric of new human interactions.
Photo by Parick Chelli
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ANNE ISAKSSON
Anne Isaksson has recently undergone open heart surgery and works with landscape from a new photographic perspective as part of her recovery. The work complements previous series of drawings and video clips. Anne comes from Sweden and lives in London with her family.
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