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ARTIST STATEMENT

Exploring Classical and Folk Mythologies with Old Masters Drawing and Painting Techniques

 

My intuitive multidisciplinary practice combines classical figurative drawing and painting techniques and mediums with contemporary approaches, deconstructive methodologies and cross-disciplinary exploration. I investigates mythological, psychological and philosophical ideas through a focus on the nuanced relationship between subject and object and the endeavoured reconciliation between finality and ephemera.

biography

Sophia Shuvalova is a Norwich contemporary fine artist and an experienced adult learning art teacher. A Fine Art alumni from Norwich University of the Arts Sophia holds a studio at Outpost Studios and regularly exhibits, both locally and internationally, recently showing at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.

SOLO Exhibitions

2023 Sophia Shuvalova Norwich Playhouse, Norwich 

2021 Sophia Shuvalova No.36 theartworkshop gallery,

Gorleston, Norfolk

2019 In Pencil Visura gallery, Moscow, Russia  

2017 Identity Mincer Bedfords Crypt, Norwich

 

Selected group EXHIBITIONS

2023 Elemental Territories Undercroft gallery, Norwich

2023 Summer by the Sea No.36 theartworkshop gallery

 

2022 Norfolk Open Studios Wensum Lodge, Norwich

2022 Outpost Studios Summer Show, Outpost Studios,

Gildengate House,Norwich

2022 StudioUS Prime Yarc, Great Yarmouth

 

2021 Norfolk Open studios, Wensum Lodge, Norwich 

2021 Outpost Studios Summer Show, Outpost Studios,

Gildengate House, Norwich

2021 Figura 21 St Margaret's Church of Art, Norwich 

2020 Emanate Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2019 Engaging Images Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

2019 Outpost Studio Holders Show 2019 Outpost Studios, Gildengate House, Norwich

2019 Transitions Forum, Norwich

2019 Paint in Progress Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2018 Consume Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich

2018 Outpost Studio Holders Show 2018 Outpost Studios, Gildengate House, Norwich

2018 Fragment Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2018 Rejuvenation The Old Shoe Factory, Norwich

2018 Nasty Women Undercroft, Norwich

2017 Back in the USSR RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, Horning, Norfolk

2017 Revolution Undercroft, Norwich

2017 Em-Re-Un Presents: New Bohemian Agenda St Margaret's Church of Art, Norwich

2017 Outpost Studio Holders Show 2017 Outpost Studios, Gildengate House, Norwich

2017 Sardines & Beer Thirteen A, Norwich

2017 PAINT BODY PAINT Nunns Yard, Norwich

2017 Portrait Exhibition Candid Gallery, London

2016 Remember Studio 20, Norwich

2016 Asylum Undercroft, Norwich

2016 30/30 12o Project Space, London 

2016 Circuit Unlocks Digital The Junction, Cambridge

2016 The Community Outpost Studios, Gildengate House, Norwich

2016 The Spring Art Show The Forum, Norwich

2015 Motif Yallops Gallery, Norwich

2015 Achromatic Matter Thirteen A, Norwich

2015 Contours Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2014 Anteros Summer Open Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2014 I am the Warrior Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2014 Hidden Undercroft, Norwich

2013 Art Exchange  Babylon Gallery, Ely

2012 Norwich University of the Arts degree show 2012  Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich

2012 Dialogue:Division  Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich

2011 Babel  Stew Gallery, Norwich

2011 Absence  Abandoned RAF site, Upwood

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