Presentiment (cycle) - Limited Edition 8 of 14 Print

Laura Guoke has organised 20 personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad and represented Lithuania in international projects in Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, USA, Estonia, etc. In 2015 , 2017 and 2020,2022 L. Guoke received a private national grant for cultural and artistic creators from Lithuanian Council for Culture. In 2016 in the world's most famous portrait competition, the BP Portrait Award, which is organized annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, Laura Guokė became the winner in the Travel Award category for the painting portrait Petras (acrylic on canvas, 146 x 200 cm) In 2019 Laura Guoke was one of the six portrait artists and BP Portrait Award winners from around the world who were featured in the BBC World News GMT documentary Portrait of the Artist () dedicated to the 30t hanniversary of the BP Portrait Award competition. After this competition, the portrait paintings Rima and Muhammed Ahmed (acrylic, canvas, 150 x 100 cm) and Monika (acrylic, canvas, 150 x100 cm), created by the artist in the Ritsona refugee camp (Greece), where the artist not only painted, but also volunteered was exhibited at National Portrait Gallery, London and Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Art Gallery Exeter, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. The portraits were acquired by the MO Museum in Vilnius, from whose collection for the exhibition Why It's So Hard to Love, (2020-2021) they were chosen by the curators - Dutch multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke and director Peter Greenaway. In 2018 her painting Boy from Aleppo (oil, acrylic, canvas, 150 x 100 cm) was awarded the First prize at the international competition of the Three Bridges Foundation (Poland), and in 2021 at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) the artist was awarded the International Special Prize of Independent film critics prize Boccalino d'Oro 2021 (Premio Boccalino d'Oro 2021 Locarno) for the artistic painting and video project The Three Worlds. Her most recent award is 1st prize in the category of Figurative Artworks at the Chianchiano Biennale (2022, Museo d’Arte di Chianciano, Italy).