| Katarina Ivanišin
About the artist...
Ivanišin explores ideas related to her own experiences of
upbringing in Dubrovnik, an idyllic Mediterranean (social and physical)
landscape, as well as memories of social, economic and spiritual
destruction caused by the past communist regime and the recent violent
political history of war in the former Yugoslavia.
The conception of near and inevitable change is her particular
concern. Her work explores the collision between abstraction and
representation. Seen from a distance the works imply a geographical
experience, but the close up examination reveals the non-fixed structure,
the language of abstraction used to suggest a figurative space.
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2004 |
Beck Gallery, Zagreb |
| 2002 |
Arthus Gallery, Brussels |
| 2001 |
Somewhere; SOHO House, London |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2004 |
will and compulsion, Broadbent, London |
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Forest, Rockwell Gallery, London |
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Faith, 1A Space Gallery, Hong Kong |
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Faith, Transition Gallery, London |
| 2003 |
CHASE, Royal College of Art, London |
| 2002 |
31-33 Shacklewell Street, London |
| 2001 |
Still, Vertigo Gallery, London |
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Beaux Arts, London |
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Springtime Sale, group show; DMP Gallery, Dubrovnik |
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Down to Earth; Mafuji Gallery, London |
| 2000 |
Assembly; Stepney City, London |
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Arthus Gallery, Brussels |
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Beaux Arts, London |
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Fukuoka Gallery, Fukuoka |
| 1999 |
View of the Situation in the South; Dubrovnik |
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Yakinthea; Anafi, Greece |
| 1998 |
Arthus Gallery, Brussels |
| 1997 |
British School of Osteopathy, London |
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| EDUCATION |
| 1998-2000 |
MA RCA Fine Art Painting, Royal College of Art, London |
| 1995-1998 |
Diploma Course in Fine Art Painting, City & Guilds of
London
Art School |
| 1994-1995 |
Foundation Course in Art and Design, City & Guilds of
London
Art School |
| 1989-1993 |
Mathematical Secondary School, Dept. of Science, Dubrovnik |
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| AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS |
| 2002 |
Gilchrist-Fisher Memorial Award, runner-up prize |
| 2000- |
Frankopan Family Sponsorship |
| 1999 |
John Crane New York Travel Award |
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John Crane Summer Travel Award |
| 1998-2000 |
Frankopan Family Scholarship |
| 1998 |
Fishmongers Livery Company Grant |
| 1997-2000 |
The City of Dubrovnik Scholarship |
| 1997 |
Phillip Connard Travel Award |
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The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers Painting Prize |
| 1994-1998 |
Erick and Salome Estorick Foundation Bursary |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Amlin Plc., London |
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British Government Art Collection, DFEE, London |
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City of London Institute, London |
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The City of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik |
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Cowley Manor, London |
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my hotel, London |
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The Royal College of Art |
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ZENECA Pharma Int., London and Hong Kong |
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The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers, London |
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The Fishmongers Livery Company, London |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| 2002 |
Financial Times, Small Prize goes Wet and Wild,
William Packer, January 2002 |
| 2001 |
Vecernji list, Nedjelja, 16. IX
Dubrovacki list, broj 153, godina IV |
| 2000 |
Assembly, published by sponsors Eric Drossart, Michel
Neeus,and Katie Robyns, London; texts by Beth Mears, Dann Fox,
Henry Ward, John Hutnyk, Nicky Coutts, Jemima Montagu and Vanda
Playford |
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| OTHER |
| 2001 |
Paintings featured in Tomb Rider (Lara Croft) movie, Paramount
Pictures, Hollywood; released July 2001 |
| 2000- |
Visiting lecturer in Fine Art Painting Degree Course at City
& Guilds of London Art School |
| 2000 |
Visiting lecturer in Fine Art Degree Course at Ruskin School
of Art, Oxford |
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