Thursday, July 1, 2004

My practice as an artist



Development of my art practice over the past several years has considerably
changed. I am always searching for different possibilities to develop
my work into something else
Often the importance is not the work itself but the original concept behind it.

The work usually happened during the process of working when
communication through images occur.

I try not to limit my imagination, I question, I look for ideas, I use my experience.

My work can be interpreted as an attempt to explore alternative ways and
issues of using traditional techniques as printmaking, painting, drawing,
combined with digital and multimedia arts.

Traditional and digital can be blended without undermining either of them.
A few years ago I took first steps towards migration from traditional image
towards digital. Now I go back and forward from traditional to digital and
vice versa, with constant change and transformation of creative energy into
something new and different.

What ever techniques I use I try to break boundaries, break the forms and
find new interpretations.

Having gained BA in Fine Art from LONDON INSTITUTE,
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, gave me insight
of importance of conceptual thinking.

The importance is in analyzing and questioning relationship
between art theory and art practice without collapsing one or another.
Collaborating with other artists and general public, exhibiting my work
in the UK and abroad, also working as a lecturer in educational settings
enriched my experience as a practising artist.
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In the past I designed several workshops with unique approach to teaching and learning.
Thinking process, sharpening perception, letting creativity to flow
unrestricted, collecting and gathering visual materials, thinking about where do we look, how do we look, what do we see, how do we capture and
materialize ideas are the fundamental principals about this unique approach.