Laura Skvirskaya

Artistic process

Throughout my life, visual arts guided me like a compass, to explore myself and others.
I was born in 1986 in Central Asia and moved to Belgium in 2001.
At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, I was trained as a painting conservator.

There is a certain feeling that creates a desire to express.

I love when I am affected by a fragment in everyday life.
It can be anything: A twisting branch of a tree, a dark cloud with light cracks, an object from my childhood, a love story, an old book with a special smell, burgundy color, prussian blue, payne's gray, a protagonist, a thought, a sketchbook from 20 years ago, Muddy Waters song and Old masters.

When I am working I am looking for a well-articulated method to represent each concept by using the visual language accordingly.
That's why I started with video installations at some point. Video is a perfect medium for image, movement and sound.
In the past two years I have been working intensively with oil paint. Technically, there are a lot of possibilities that I am still discovering.

I like to examine images from different time periods. I consider this part of the lab.
I have two personal approaches to my artistic process. The first approac...

2005-2008
Bachelor of Conservation and Restoration for paintings and polychrome sculpture.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Belgium

2010-2011
Master of Conservation and Restoration for paintings and polychrome sculpture.
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Belgium

2020-2022
Master of Teaching
University of Antwerp
Belgium

2021

The Holy Art Gallery
Group exhibition "OBLIVION" Virtual Exposition
Hackney Dawn Studios E8 2BT, London

Martin Van Blerk Gallery
Solo exposities “A sportsman’s sketches”
Antwerp-Belgium

2019

POP Up Gallery
Expo 167
Antwerp-Belgium

2019

BOZAR
Next Generation please
Brussel-Belgium

2018

Gallery Fortuna
Antwerp-Belgium

RITSC
Film screening
Brussel-Belgium

2017

RITSC
Film screening
Brussel-Belgium

2016

Culture Center
Solo exposities “Blue”
Antwerp-Belgium