Ioulia Ourovskaia

Ioulia Ourovskaia was born in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic in 1975. This is where she began to dream to be an Artist. From as young as five years, she recollects sitting at the table with her other siblings and copying the drawing from a newspaper – heroic workmen in red overalls uniform with the right hand up in the air, and in the left holding a rolled newspaper with the name ‘TRUD’ meaning ‘work’.
Later in school, she collected cut-outs from magazine ‘Ogonek’, meaning ‘light’, without missing a circulation, every artist, and their description of work. Art was her favorite subject and biology also because she got to draw in detail the plant cells and its organelles. She saw the beauty in any art form and shape, and it would transfer her into a magnificent, imaginative world of art. She would dream of following the footsteps of her older brother to be a student at Art School in Jambul city – now Taraz. She still regretted till today that she never became one of the students due to travelling distance circumstances.
In 1988 her dream moved with her family to the populated village of Lobkovo and soon to Sushchevo where the family the anchored their lives and built the house. Five years earlier, be...

Graduate: BFA (Painting), National Art School (NAS), Sydney. 2015
I am an emerging Sydney based artist and storyteller, and through my art I root the essence of spirituality in every part of it. An integral part of the work comes from photos of the past, recollections of memory or even current situations that give me inspiration and ideas that I dwell on. Also, collections that have been found ‘brick a brack’ on the streets or gardens – something that triggers thought or spikes memory and takes my imagination to work.
Sometimes the work can start as figurative and end up surreal or organic shapes can turn in to geometrical abstract. My style is every style – it is varied from medium to medium and involves experimentation. I am always searching for something new to try. In my former study at National Art School, I have been exposed to different disciplines of creating art. I suppose that extraordinary experience gave me the license to create. I just cannot stand to work in one direction because it is boring. I think the word ‘create’ and ‘experiment’ says it all in my practice and there is no limitation and there is no dead end…
My artwork is focused on allowing the viewer to reveal the relevance between a piece of art and their o...

Ioulia Ourovskaia and Wendy Cohen exhibition,
Factory 49, 2019
Space Gallery ' Diversity' 2018
Portia Geach 2016 Finalist
'The Greed Show', National School Gallery, Sydney. 2015
The graduation exhibition 2015 National Art School.
Coutts Family Award for Excellence in Drawing 2013 National Art School.
Included in the National Art School Collection.
Jocelyn Maughan Sketch Prize 2015 Year-Highly Commended