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Julia-Anna Simonchuk

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Artist Statement

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Julia has been a Londoner for six years now. She graduated from BA Fine Art course at CSM and is currently finishing a Fine Art MA at the Slade. 

 

Julia is working with sculpture, collage, installation, printmaking, socially-engaging projects and moving image. Her art practice is informed by research into history as well as personal experiences of witnessing history-in-making. She is working with the questions of power, ideology, memorialisation, decolonisation, hauntology, and time. 

 

Credits: Varvara Uhlik

Education 

2023-2025

MA Fine Art, Slade, UCL

2020-2023

BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins.

1st Class Honours

2019-2020

Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and Design, 

Central Saint Martins - University of Arts London  

2017

Short Courses - University of the Arts London - Fine Arts and Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins college and Fine Arts at Chelsea college

Exhibitions and projects 

2025

  • ‘It Fit On The Way Here’, Group Show Barbican Trust. Link

 

  • ​‘Between the Lines’, Libreria Bookshop. Link

2024

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  • Slade Interim Show, showcasing 'Testimony of CHAIKA-II'. Link 

  • Fundraising auction and exhibition 'Art Aid Ukraine'. Link 

  • 'There is Something New Under the Sun', Slade Postgrad group show at TANK Magazine space, London.  Link

  • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Showcased 'Monumental Threat' and 'Friendships End' at Museum Late in the context of William Blake and Conflict Beyond Borders and Forms

  • Album cover art design 'Alternative Readings' by Michael Finnissy (label: Métier). Release: March 2024. Link

  • 'Re-Prise' - group show at the OPENING, Koppel Project, London. Link

2023

  • Slade Postgraduate interim showcase. Link

  • Event in a context of a project: Camouflage. Wings We DesireSt Andrew's Chruch. 4th and 6th June. Link

  • Presenter at Central and Eastern European Creatives Network event hosted by Centrala. Link

  • Poster design (based on Jonas Staal painting) for 'Socialist Anthropocene in Visual Art. Project' by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Postsocialist Art Centre UCL).

  • CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Regaining Paradises'. Link

2022

  • 'I Dance the Other' (collaboration of CSM BA Fine Art and Studio Wayne McGregor

  • 'Touched' (CSM BA Fine Art and the National Gallery) - participant at Yasse Saidi's performances. Link

  • CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Monumental Threat'. Link

  • USU Fundraiser Gala for Ukraine. Link

  • 'Sounds for Ukraine' - a fundraising piano concert in support of Ukraine, which took place in St Paul's Actors Church Covent Garden. Julia was in charge of organization, management, performance, communication and advertisement. Link

2021

2020

2019

  • Group show 'Painting Beyond Itself' at the Bomb Factory, London. Link

2018

  • Illustration accompaniment to a literature event - Dramgurtok at Gogolfest, Vinnytsia

  • Internship in the educational department of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

2017

  • Participation in a performance "Freedom to be yourself” by Daria Koltsova at He for She Art Week, Kyiv

  • Internship as an assistant in communication at the Unit.City Art Prize, Kyiv

2016

  • ​Personal exhibition in Maisteriya gallery at The House of Artist, Kyiv

Awards and Nominations
2023

Arts Awards UAL Prize for the Outstanding Student Contribution to Community Award. Link  

MullenLowe NOVA Awards Nomination. Link

Art Jobs: Artist of the Month (June 2023) Link 

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