Anna Filimonova
Anna is an award winning Ukrainian/Kiwi artist, working full-time as a professional artist since 2016.
She seeks to communicate her distinct outsider interpretation of the world, painting visions of the real and unreal for us. She perceives the world both as it is, with a particular love of the New Zealand landscape, and as it might be: surreal worlds, shapes, and abstract images.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Anna's most iconic works are exquisitely painted rooms and windows which provide a framework for external views, and a location for other contextual features.
Anna’s work continues to explore perspective, viewpoint, and challenge the conceit of “looking through”. Weather it is looking into white rooms or through life size windows she shows us dramatic, spare and desolate … changed landscapes. She wants the viewer to consider what is the essence of the natural world and how by perceiving it we are creating our own version of it.
Artist Statement
I was born in the Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod , which sits adjacent to Slovakia. I’ve been told that I was drawing before I could walk, and surprising adults with my skill. When I was fifteen years old, I have entered the College of Adabert Erdeli, a high school specialising in art education, and where I developed much of my technical skill. At the age of eighteen I left school, married and moved to Auckland, New Zealand and a year later gave a birth to my daughter Polina. In 2013 I enrolled to study part-time Psychology at Massey University. From the late 2016 I began to exhibit and to work professionally as a visual artist .
She seeks to communicate her distinct outsider interpretation of the world, painting visions of the real and unreal for us. She perceives the world both as it is, with a particular love of the New Zealand landscape, and as it might be: surreal worlds, shapes, and abstract images.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Anna's most iconic works are exquisitely painted rooms and windows which provide a framework for external views, and a location for other contextual features.
Anna’s work continues to explore perspective, viewpoint, and challenge the conceit of “looking through”. Weather it is looking into white rooms or through life size windows she shows us dramatic, spare and desolate … changed landscapes. She wants the viewer to consider what is the essence of the natural world and how by perceiving it we are creating our own version of it.
Artist Statement
I was born in the Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod , which sits adjacent to Slovakia. I’ve been told that I was drawing before I could walk, and surprising adults with my skill. When I was fifteen years old, I have entered the College of Adabert Erdeli, a high school specialising in art education, and where I developed much of my technical skill. At the age of eighteen I left school, married and moved to Auckland, New Zealand and a year later gave a birth to my daughter Polina. In 2013 I enrolled to study part-time Psychology at Massey University. From the late 2016 I began to exhibit and to work professionally as a visual artist .
" Contemplating the Meaning of Mortality " , Acrylic on canvas, 148 cm x 91 cm,
"Why Should We Be Concerned ", Acrylic on canvas, 46 cm x 74 cm
" The Necessary Clarity " , Acrylic on canvas, 102 cm x 76 cm,
" The Echo of Things " , Acrylic on canvas, 46 cm x 74 cm,
PREVIOUSLY EXHIBITED AT ARTOFACT GALLERY
" Only Son - Wharariki Beach ", Acrylic on canvas, 91 cm x 61 cm
" Cultivating Hope in Gardens of Broken Shadows " , Acrylic on canvas, 100 cm x 75 cm
" From my visions, from my light, from my memories " Acrylic on canvas, 115 cm x 71 cm
"A Dialogue of Dreamers ", Acrylic on canvas, 46 cm x 74 cm
" When Form meets Content " , Acrylic on canvas, 115 cm x 71 cm
"Artifacts of Absence ", Acrylic on canvas, 46 cm x 74 cm
