Eugenia Vronskaya (born 1966) is a Russian
figurative painter
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
.
Life
Eugenia Vronskaya was born in Socollnic, Moscow,
[Urquhart, Suki 'Paint magic', p. 40, ''Caledonia Magazine'', (Edinburgh), September 2000] grew up in Russia, before moving to London aged 22. She now lives in the
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (; , ) is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Scots language, Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gae ...
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Career and work
Vronskaya studied
icon painting
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from the early age of nine. After this she attended the Moscow School of Art (1981–1983), the Moscow University of Art (1983–1989) and the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...
, London (1991–93) where she was the first Russian student ever to be accepted to the college, taking commissions for portraits to pay the fees for the course.
In 1989 Vronskaya was invited to New York by
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with ...
to take part in a Triangle Workshop organised by
Triangle Arts Trust
The Triangle Network, formally known as the Triangle Arts Trust, is an international arts organisation that brings together artists from different countries to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice.
History
The Triangle N ...
. Vronskaya said of the workshop "The most exciting thing about Triangle was the feeling that I could do anything". The workshop afforded Vronskaya the opportunity to experiment with abstract painting, which she continued to work on for some years after returning to London.
Vronskaya married and moved to Scotland in the 90s.
Notable exhibitions include 'As others see us: Portraits from the Highlands', a touring exhibition that was shown in the
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country's national academy of art. It promotes contemporary art, contemporary Scottish art.
The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy ...
.
See also
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Figurative art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract a ...
References
External links
Kilmorack Gallery's websiteexhibition reviews
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1966 births
Living people
20th-century Russian painters
21st-century Russian painters
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Painters from Moscow