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.
SOLO Exhibitions
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
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
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.