Stanislav Shmelev
Oxford, United Kingdom
About Stanislav Shmelev
Dr Stanislav Shmelev is an award winning British photographer (Honorary Colour Master, 2011; Premier Selection of Le Plus Grand Concours Photo du Monde, PHOTO Magazine, France, 2010; 3rd prize in Environmental Photography, British Council, 2005), painter, environmentalist and art historian. Educated in art history and drawing and holding a PhD in Ecological Economics (2003), Stanislav combines his interest in fine
art and sustainability and expresses his admiration for the natural world through oil paintings and photographs, printed on aluminium plates. Passionate about green economy, nature protection and sensitive ecosystems, Stanislav creates evocative environmental landscapes inspired by his travels in Brazil, Malaysia, the UK, France and the countries of the Mediterranean. Formerly a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Senior Researcher at the Oxford University, and Visiting Professor
at Universities of Geneva, Paris and Versailles, Stanislav devotes all his energy to the promotion of sustainability ideas both through the language of art and of science.
Stanislav has been a Member of the St Ives Arts Club, was represented by DEBUT Contemporary Gallery in Notting Hill, London, had several solo shows in Oxford, exhibited with the STITCH "˜Art for the Earth' auction in London, Swiss Cottage Gallery (London), O3 Gallery (Oxford), Studio 44AD (Bath) and FOTONOVIEMBRE de Tenerife International Photography Festival (Spain) and is selling his work through SAATCHI ART. His images were used on book covers and published in magazines, his solo shows "Colour and Light at Play" of May-August 2011 at Summertown Wine Café,
Oxford and "Environmental Improvisations" at Said Business School of Oxford University were positively reviewed by Oxford Times. Stanislav is an author of a book "˜Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice', Springer, 2012.
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Education:
ART & ART HISTORY EDUCATION
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2013 Sensing Place. Photography as Inquiry: Course with Dr Anne Whiston Spirn
DEBUT CONTEMPORARY, LONDON
2013 Contemporary Art Practice
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2008-2013 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford: Life Drawing Class
2009-2010 Wolfson College, University of Oxford: Life Drawing Class
CHELTENHAM SCHOOL OF ART
2002 – Independent studies in Photography (Visiting Researcher at University of Gloucestershire)
HERMITAGE HISTORY OF ART CLUB, St Petersburg
1988-1993 Ancient World, Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, Dutch Art, English Art, Russian Art,
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Eastern Art
ECOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC EDUCATION
PhD Saint Petersburg State University, October 2003
PhD in Ecological Economics supported by the European Commission INTAS PhD Fellowship
Grant YSF 2001-1/234.
MSc Saint Petersburg State University, June 2000
MSc in Economics (Ecological Economics)
ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL –ECONOMIC EDUCATION
Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2013
LEAD International, 2007: LEAD Europe Fellow
Autonomous University of Barcelona, June, 2006: Summer School in Ecological Economics
Santa Fe Institute, Budapest, Hungary, 2001: Complex Systems Summer School
Schumacher College, South Devon, UK, July-August 1998: International Course
Events:
My image is published in a new book: 'Stunning Photographs' by National Geographic http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1426213921/
Two of my images from the 'Objects Found on the Beach' series were selected for the Brighton Photo Biennial & Brighton Photo Fringe 2014 photographic festivals http://eepurl.com/4Dyl1
I am absolutely thrilled! Three of my marine artworks were selected by STITCH and OCEANA to take part in a curated exhibition at PHILLIPS (www.phillips.com) in London on 12 March 2014. Watch this space! #art #photography #sea #ocean #earth #protect #London #painting #nature #tropics #wilderness #environment #sustainability #eco #STITCH #Phillips_de_Pury #OCEANA
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
• 2017 ‘Magical Realism’, Press Conference, United Nations UNFCCC COP23, Bonn
• 2017 ‘Climate Change Complexity’, British Pavilion, United Nations UNFCCC COP23, Bonn
• 2016 ‘Poetics of the Desert’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
• 2015 ‘Magical Realism’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
• 2014 ‘The Search of the Exotic: An Ecological Art Approach’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
• 2014 ‘Ecosystems’, OVADA Gallery, Oxford (March, 2014)
• 2013 Department of Politics & IR, University of Oxford, May-June 2013
• 2012 Said Business School, University of Oxford, January 2012
• 2011 Summertown Wine Cafe, Oxford, UK (May-August 2011)
• 2010 Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival, Oxford, UK (May 2010)
• 2009 Vaults and Garden, St Mary’s Church, Oxford, UK (March-May 2009)
• 2008 Oxfordshire Arweeks Festival, Oxford, UK (May 2008)
• 2003 St Petersburg Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, St Petersburg, Russia (October 2003)
Group Exhibitions
• 2015 Atlantica Colectivas, Fotonoviembre de Tenerife 2015, Tenerife, Spain
• 2015 Open Open, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
• 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, Parque Kennedy, Lima, Peru
• 2014 Second United Nations Conference on Land Locked Developing Countries, Vienna, Austria
• 2014 OPEN Brighton Photo Fringe 2014, Brighton (Launch Party)
• 2014 Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennal 2014, Brighton
• 2014 Open Open Exhibition, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London (Aug-Sep 2014)
• 2014 Eco Art Exhibition with STITCH & OCEANA, PHILLIPS, London (March 2014): 3 works
• 2014 ART TEACHERS EXHIBITION, O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle, Oxford (Feb 2014)
• 2013 FOTONOVIEMBRE de Tenerife 2013, Spain
• 2013 Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
• 2013 Studio 44AD, Bath
• 2013 DEBUT Contemporary, Notting Hill, London
• 2012 St Ives Arts Club Members Exhibition, St Ives, UK (September, 2012)
• 2011 STITCH, London, UK (November 2011)
• 2011 St Ives Arts Club Members Exhibition, St Ives, UK (September 2011)
• 2010 St Ives Arts Club Members Exhibition, St Ives, UK (September 2010)
• 2010 Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK (September 2010)
• 2004 British Council, St Petersburg, Russia
