Laura Sarkane

Currently living in Romania, Bucharest

Laura Sarkane has graduated Riga’s Art and Design School, Art Academy of Latvia and has received bachelor and master degrees in ceramic arts. She has also supplemented her knowledge many exchange programs, art project, participated in exhibitions, competitions in Europe - Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania - and abroad - Turkey, USA, Russia.
Laura’s one of the favorite ceramic materials is porcelain, because as she says: “Porcelain got a personality as no other! It is like a princess and you should treat it like one.” However stoneware has not been forgotten as it is more masculine material and it gives necessary strength for work who likes to travel in exhibitions. Her works are sculptural and chosen topics usually are serious but input in the complete work always has a part of humor or smile in it. For example her work “Recordatio XIII” with consisted of 13 Teddy bear skeletons or work “Symbols” which includes seven raku pictures with scenes of girls playing with little skeleton bears. As Laura says she likes to surprise herself and it is always hard to tell what will be next inspiration.
Currently I am working on drawings which sometimes become draft for some of my ceramic works. I like to captu...

2014 Exhibition “Mates”, ADSR, Riga, Latvia
2013 Exhibition “Spring”, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Baltic States Exhibition at Anderson Center, WI, USA
2012 Participant in project and exhibition “Ecoceramics”,
Tallinn, Estonia
2012 TEDY FAN 2012 exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Solo exhibition “Sisters” in Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia
2011 Designer of the “Latvia – Polish dictionary”, published by
Zvaigzne ABC, Riga, Latvia
2011 Visiting artists in Lake Pepin Art and Design Center, Wisconsin, USA
2011 Internship in National University of Art of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Participant in 2nd International symposium and exhibition of overglaze and underglaze paintings, Eskisehir, Turkey
2010 Participation in “International student vase symposium 2010”, Dubi, Czech Republic
2010 Participation in Baltic States wheel-throwing competition and I. Place in aesthetic wheel-throwing, Kaunas, Lithuania
2009 Latvian Art Academy Ceramics departments 85.year anniversary student exhibition “Little Crimes” organizer and participant, Riga, Latvia
2009 Participant of X-th international Ceramics symposium “We”, theme – reduction firing and symposiums exhibi...