Julia Rawal - Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist based in Poland since 2014.
With a background in medicine, new media art, and animation.
Nowdays working mainly with painting and recently drawing.
Took part in several internationall artistic residencies
(Spain, Portugal, Italy) and few personal shows in Ukraine and Poland.
“I use as my primary artistic languages drawing and painting,
while I also find it fascinating to engage in experiments with materials and contexts.
I am drawn to non-verbal and non-figurative elements,
that convey the diverse facets of my life experiences as
a human being, woman, immigrant, artist and dreamer.
Exploring theme of ambiguity, intricate connections
between surface and insides,
visible and hidden, accepted and deviant.
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious -
personal and group - the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
As self-emploied artist with no academic background,
granting myself a radical artistic freedom and allow myself
experiments with styles, mediums and themes.
It is important for me to work with eco-sustainable materials,
produce minimal waste and be conscious about environmental
impact of my work, therefore I use no silicone or plastic.
I like to think my work of art has time of its life, as I do.
Want to be sure it will note turn into immortal garbage
causing death of other creatures. Pencil is modest, its cheap,
it harms nobody. It also allow me as artist to get free from financial limitatoins.
Wow-effect (so much desired in marketing-design-buy-sell-consume-die industry)
is not what I am after.”