Vaida Varnagiene

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist working in Dublin, originally from Lithuania. I have been working as a landscape designer and architect for many years until I came to Ireland where I shifted my focus to a visual art in multiple artistic media with the main focus on printmaking. Currently I am a member of Graphic Studio Dublin.
I often use different media, such as painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and installation when I create my artwork. I practice and develop my artistic skills based on the traditional techniques and experimenting with the new forms.
​My interests are to observe and analyse cultural, philosophical and environmental issues using alternative meanings and employing the language of semiotics. My artwork explores a contemporary world, myth, and fantasy conveyed through mixed media and printmaking. I want to extend the boundaries between reality and imagination: utopias and dystopias, heterotopias, alchemy and illusion, that are all used in my work.
With a great pleasure, I invite you to follow my creative journey and find an artwork which inspires you.

- MA (Postgraduate Certificate) Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
- BA (Honours) Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland.
- Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration, Art and Design Portfolio Preparation, Marino College of Further Education Dublin, Ireland.
- BA (Honours) Landscape architecture of Town and Country Planning and Recreational Architecture, University of Klaipeda, Lithuania.
- BA (Ordinary) Landscape design, Klaipeda Business and Technology College, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
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- 'Letters from Afar' at Galleri Gl. Lejre, Denmark.
- 'Grafika Irlandzka' GSD members group exhibition at Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury / Black Gallery in Krakow, Poland.
- Winter Exhibition Graphic Studio Gallery, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.
- Collector/New Order group exhibition at SO Fine Art Editions, 10 South Anne Street, Dublin, Ireland.
- 'Another bite of the cherry' group exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland.
- HALFTONE Print Fair at The Library Project and Black Church Print Studio, Temple Bar Street, Dublin, Ireland.
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal Riverside, Woolwich, London, UK.
- Central And Eastern Europe Art Exhibition at China Hangzhou Cultural & Creative Industry Expo 2017, Whitehorse Lake Creative Eco-City, China.
- Summer Exhibition Graphic Studio Gallery, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.
- 187th RHA Annual exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland​.
- ​Group exhibition 'Fresh Print' at the Graphic Studio Gallery, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.
- ​Group exhibition 'Visual Rhythm' at the Graphic Studio Gallery, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.
- The 5th International Latgale Graphic Symposium E...