EDUCATION
2022 Introduction to Augmented Reality and ARCore, online course. Coursera, Daydream.
2022 Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education, Associate Fellowship, Buckinghamshire New University, UK
2019 MA in Printmaking, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Distinction and Cambridge Artworks Residency Award
2019 Certificate in Cultural Studies Venice Biennale Revealed. European Cultural Academy, Venice, Italy
2017 Advanced Printmaking and Contemporary Creative Practice Art Course, year long, City Lit London, UK
2015 Fine Art Course, two years, City Lit London, UK
2012 Diploma in Interior Design, JJAADA Academy, London, UK
2004 MA in Communications and Public Relations, The University of Westminster, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 - 2022 Contested Space, CPFT NHS, Mental Health Hospitals at Fulbourn, Cambridge and Cavell Centre, Peterborough
2017 Contested Space, The Willesden Green Art Gallery, London
2017 The Chelsea Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Thinner Line. Willesden Gallery, Physical exhibition, London, UK
2023 Reduce Reuse Recycle, Art and Sustainability, Physical exhibition, Willesden Gallery, Brent, London, UK
2022 CPFT NHS Art Club ‘Beyond SVETTA’ Arts Council England grant, Physical exhibition Mental Health, Cambridge and Peterborough, UK
2022 Mother, online exhibition by Tebbs Contemporary Art Gallery, UK
2022 A Thin Line. Willesden Gallery, Physical exhibition, London, UK
2022 Between Two Doors, Physical Exhibition at Watford Museum, UK
2022 Togetherness Winter Exhibition, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster, UK
2022 Winter, ArtCan Artist Led Exhibition, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK,
2021 Online Between Two Doors, Artist Led Online International Exhibition, UK, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan
2021 STORIES 01, ArtCan and Kroll, The News Building, Physical and Online Exhibition, London, UK
2021 Willesden Gallery, Physical exhibition, Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Brent, London
2021 The Curator Salon, the entry at TheGitaJoshi Instagram, London, UK
2021 The Holy Art, Three works at Online Exhibition, London, UK
2021 Willesden Gallery Instagram, One minute with…, video interview, Brent, London
2021 Willesden Gallery, Online exhibition, Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Artists Open Call, Brent, London
2020 Willesden Gallery, Instagram Take Over, Artists Open Call, Brent, London
2020 MA & Other Postgraduates 2019 Exhibition, The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2020 Willesden Gallery, Identity and Self, Artists Open Call, Brent, London
2020 The Magic Pool of Colourful Rays, Connect and Do Centre, Brixton, London
2019 Cast, MA Degree Show, Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge
2019 Shifted, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2019 There is no Wealth but Life, Sustainability Art Prize. Ruskin Gallery, ARU
2019 Connextions, Helmore Exhibition Space, Cambridge Arts Network and ARU
2018 Incite, The Crypt, Zion Baptist Church. Cambridge, UK
2018 Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale, Cambridge
2018 Hesketh Hubbard Art Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2018 Sustainability Art Prize. Ruskin Gallery, ARU
2018 Identity, Espacio Gallery, London
2017 Ink, RK Burt Gallery, London
2017 ONO, The Asylum Chapel, London
ART RESIDENCIES
2021 Artist response on online Art Club SVETTA: Shared Visual Experiences and Thinking Through Art, CPFT, Cambridge, UK
2020 a-n Bursary for Art Residency at Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital, Cambridge, UK
2019 - 2020 To the River Cam, Cambridge Council Art Residency under Caroline Wright, UK
GRANTS
2020 - 2021 ART COUNCIL ENGLAND GRANT for SVETTA Art Club for NHS staff at Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital, Cambridge, UK
2020 ART COUNCIL ENGLAND COVID FUND for Online Art Workshops for patients at Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital, Cambridge
2020 - 2021 a-n The Artists Information Company. Bursary for Art Workshops for service users at Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital, Cambridge
EDUCATOR IN-PERSON AND ONLINE ART WORKSHOPS
2021 - present Associate Lecturer in FA, Creative Sector: Participatory and Socially Engaged Practice. Buckinghamshire New University, UK
2021 Online Public Art Workshops for British Association of Art Therapists, 100 participants, Nationwide, UK
2019 - 2021 WOMEN IN PRISON. Online Art Workshops at South London Hubs, UK
2020 - 2021 Online Art Workshops for staff at CPFT NHS, Cambridge and Peterborough, UK
2020 Online Public Art Workshop for 100 participants at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK
2019 - 2021 In-person and online Art Workshops for CPFT NHS, Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital, low security unit, Cambridgeshire, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Group entry, article on ‘A Glass Envelop’ International Online Artist Residency, to Publication Pluralist, Royal College of Art. London, UK
2020 Entry, image and a story. Ways of Thinking, Sean Baker (editor), Jane Boyer (editor), Timothy Kobin (editor),
Nicholas Jeeves (designer, editor). Publisher: Anglia Ruskin University ISBN: 9781912319022
2018 Entry, image and a story (p. 53). Contemporary Cambridge, edited by Jane Boyer, CSA. Ruskin Arts, ISBN:978-0-9931461
VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE
November 2020
A Glass Envelop, Artists Led International Online Artists Residency. Partner and organiser.
July-September 2020
Online Art Workshops for staff at Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
April-August 2020
Online International Art Workshops for friends and family during COVID19 Pandemic.
June 2019
Art Workshops at Rehabilitation Centre, Women in Prison, Brixton, London. Art Workshops for improvement of creative wellbeing and confidence. Printmaking and Fine Art. Curating of the final exhibition.
January-July 2019
Art Therapy Workshops, CPFT, Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge. Printmaking explored with outpatients and patients from the Low Security Unit.
2018- 2019
Swimming for fundraising, £680. Swimathon, UK Nationwide campaign for Cancer Research.
ABOUT
Svetlana's preferable mediums are clay, printmaking, and video. She holds a Master's Degree in Printmaking, and was awarded a Highly Commented for Art Residency Prize during the Degree Show at the Anglia Ruskin University for her project ‘Lines of Reproduction’. It also won participation in MA & Other Postgraduates Exhibition, at The Atkinson Gallery, Millfield in 2020. She frequently participates in exhibitions around the UK. Svetlana received three grants during the COVID19 pandemic from Arts Council England and A-N: Artists Information Company for developing online educational resources for Mental Health Hospital. She is a lecturer for BA FA course at the Buckinghamshire New University. She is a member of ArtCanOrg, Matts Robert Group and Experimental Space Collective.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multimedia artist who explores social issues, deeply rooted within our psychological being. My art research connects to the visualization of art processes, empathy, controversial issues, and the role of women in society. The project Lines of Reproduction explored correlations between natural forms, and lines as intangible aspects of time; between memories of the pre-symbolic stage of development and the unconscious feelings from childhood. Thinking about my childhood, adolescence, marriage I created more than forty white sculptures, they were displayed over a long red surface allowing viewers to explore incommunicable feelings of growth, where female and male curves meet into space for the reproduction of the human race.
My project SVETTA Art Club was financed by Arts Council England. It opened new opportunities for development of a visual language through moving images. The essence of the project was in establishing relationships via virtual art workshops with and between participants: the NHS exhausted staff during COVID19 and the artist-educator.
My research is focused on creative processes developed during experiments and the serendipity of maternal instincts. The core of the relationships between artist-viewer, educator-participant is similar to accounts with children when intuition and knowledge of visual perception lead the communication process.
Currently, I work on developing connection between flatness of ceramic pieces, mechanical distribution of sound waves and perception.
Multimedia artworks include video, ceramics, printmaking and animation.
For more information please contact: svetlana.atlavina@gmail.com