Natasha Dikaya
BIOGRAPHY
Russian- born artist Natasha Dikaya has been working as a professional artist for 7 years since she graduated from UWE. Painting has always been her passion, but she has also experimented with video installation, winning the Michael Barnard Award for one of her pieces.
She first exhibited her 1st series of paintings in May 2011. Since then she has exhibited widely in Bristol, including the prestigious Royal West of England Autumn Show in 2011.
Originating from Russia, Natasha's first series of paintings was influenced by Russian constructivism of the early 20th century, also Piet Mondrian, Peter Halley and Sarah Morris as well as some graffiti artists such as Graphic Surgery and Matt W Moore. She is inspired by the tension in these artists work and their experimental nature.
For her early series she used spray paint on steel panels with lacquer, producing fairly large piece about a meter tall. The subject of the work has associations with living in the urban environment and the increasing linear patterns within this experience. She sees urban life as being controlled by a multi-layered network of lines: electricity and telephone lines, wireless networks, internet and satellite signals. This invisible linear world controls and frames the way we behave and look at the world. Natasha chooses the medium of spray paint because it has an industrial quality. The work is then taken to be spray lacquered by a car garage. This working method gives the work a linear process, almost like "production line", which Natasha feels gives it a sense of the growing alienation and disconnection that many people living in a city experience.
Recent Exhbitions:
- Spike Island, Bristol
- Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, BAS 08
- Deeply on the surface, Junction, Bristol
- Work-in-progress,Tobacco Factory, Bristol
- Urban realist, Engineers’ House, Bristol, group exhibition
- RWA Autumn Exhibition 2011
- Storytelling show, Bristol Contemporary Art, Bristol, 2012
- Supernature show, Bristol Contemporary Art, Bristol, 2014
- Affordable Art Fair Bristol, 2014
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, 2014
Russian- born artist Natasha Dikaya has been working as a professional artist for 7 years since she graduated from UWE. Painting has always been her passion, but she has also experimented with video installation, winning the Michael Barnard Award for one of her pieces.
She first exhibited her 1st series of paintings in May 2011. Since then she has exhibited widely in Bristol, including the prestigious Royal West of England Autumn Show in 2011.
Originating from Russia, Natasha's first series of paintings was influenced by Russian constructivism of the early 20th century, also Piet Mondrian, Peter Halley and Sarah Morris as well as some graffiti artists such as Graphic Surgery and Matt W Moore. She is inspired by the tension in these artists work and their experimental nature.
For her early series she used spray paint on steel panels with lacquer, producing fairly large piece about a meter tall. The subject of the work has associations with living in the urban environment and the increasing linear patterns within this experience. She sees urban life as being controlled by a multi-layered network of lines: electricity and telephone lines, wireless networks, internet and satellite signals. This invisible linear world controls and frames the way we behave and look at the world. Natasha chooses the medium of spray paint because it has an industrial quality. The work is then taken to be spray lacquered by a car garage. This working method gives the work a linear process, almost like "production line", which Natasha feels gives it a sense of the growing alienation and disconnection that many people living in a city experience.
Recent Exhbitions:
- Spike Island, Bristol
- Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, BAS 08
- Deeply on the surface, Junction, Bristol
- Work-in-progress,Tobacco Factory, Bristol
- Urban realist, Engineers’ House, Bristol, group exhibition
- RWA Autumn Exhibition 2011
- Storytelling show, Bristol Contemporary Art, Bristol, 2012
- Supernature show, Bristol Contemporary Art, Bristol, 2014
- Affordable Art Fair Bristol, 2014
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, 2014
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