Terra Nuova #5 Photograph

Valentina Schulte is a Sydney based artist focusing on photography, video and sculptural experiments. Her continuing interest in the arts has led her through the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in 2009. Schulte’s work has evolved a focus around the urban and natural landscapes we inhabit and how these places affect our experiences of the world. This idea has evolved through research centred around travel and the flaneur in order to try and understand why we seek new horizons and experiences to enrich our lives. While the central theme in these works is humanity within the landscape, newest works take these ideas and explore ideas of circadian rhythms, sacred geometry and geometric patterns, beauty in small details, terraforming, positive and negative space and finally the bending of nature to our will. Schulte’s work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions and artist run spaces in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra as well as internationally in solo and group shows in the USA, Norway, United Kingdom and Spain. Most recently, Schulte was a finalist in the Ravenswood Women's Art Prize (emerging) and was awarded overall winner of the 2017 CLIP Award for contemporary landscape photography with her work 'Our Silent Guardians' and Fishers Ghost Photography Prize in 2019.