Engaged in printmaking, drawing, painting, and book illustration. Born in Odessa, Victoria graduated with a double degree in arts and music performance in Ukraine followed up by further degrees of Masters in Piano Performance and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from The University of Melbourne, VCA. She confirmed her PhD candidacy in 2011, Adelaide University.
Her graduation work was selected for Australia in Japan Art Council Exchange, Tokyo Fine Arts Academy (2006). First prize in Second Edition Venice Printmaking Competition resulted in collaboration with Artevisione and Atelier 3+10 in Venice,Italy (2018). Explorations of the Human condition, specifically connectedness and isolation are the main themes of her art.
Recipient of several international awards and grants, shortlisted in Guanlan Printmaking Biennale her work was selected to represented Ukraine in a One Belt One Road Cultural Expo (2017). Participant of over 70 national and international group and solo exhibitions, Victoria is engaged in art events and residencies across China and Europe. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, where she spends free time snorkelling and scuba diving at a local reef.
Artist Statement
Explorations of the human condition, specifically connectedness and isolation are themes for my artworks.
The idea of the collective subconscious inspires my vision of Humankind as a meta-organism drawing on the dynamics that unite us, not that which divides us. In my works I am trying to capture intense moments of existence. Our emotional ecology defines our decisions about how to be in the world and although artists can not fix the world, the work can say “what you experience – matters”.
In an increasingly mechanised and toxic world it is important to protect our emotional ecology and humanity.
Selected Exhibitions
Geidai’s University Museum Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan