Anya Palamartschuk (they/them) (b.1997) is a non-binary multi-disciplinary visual artist from the UK, Spain and the Ukraine. Their practice centres on creating projection mazes that combine installation and imagery for an audience to walk within. Playing with scale and gravity, these spaces transform 2D audio-visuals into 3D labyrinths that abstract the rules of the world in order to invite new realities, championing queerness, re-wilding the body, offering spaces of healing in nature and allowing an audience to forget the world behind them. Ultimately, their goal is to create accessible art that a range of audiences can interact with; as with storytelling, the most personal experiences can also be the most universally impactful, and Anya’s works explore this connection that we all have. At the moment, Anya is using photographs of trees to create unique embroidery designs for clothing and textiles. Anya uses coding and digital processes to think about the future of drawing and create one-of-a-kind customised pieces.
Anya has undertaken residencies with RARA studios London 2022, Robot Theatre Lab ARE Holland 2023 and In The Soil Arts Festival Canada 2023. They have exhibited their installations at Christie’s exhibition ‘Un/Sense’ 2022, Ugly Duck’s ‘@Disturbance 2’ 2021, Queer Circle 2022 and Brighton Fringe 2022. They were short-listed for the New Emergence Art Prize in 2021, the Future Artefacts Award, 2022 and received the Nagoya University Incentive Award 2019. They collaborated with Vivienne Griffin to create ‘Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy’ Sound Workshop at Somerset House and have helped facilitate workshops at RARA Studios, LungA Arts Festival Iceland and the Tate Exchange. In March, Anya was the designer and co-executive editor of an 80 page publication archiving the LGBTQIA+ residency and showcase @Disturbance.
Education
2:1 Upper Division - Fine Art: Sculpture BA Hons, University of Brighton, 2016-2019
Principles of Social Media with Business 513 Unit 301, 2021
Distinction – UAL Foundation Diploma, Art and Design, UCA Epsom, 2015-2016
Awards
Artist of the Month, Art from the Heart, 2022
Short-listed InstincD: Art Festival ’22 Ignite the Future 2022
Short-listed Future Artefacts 2022
Short-listed for the New Emergence Art Prize 2021
Nagoya University Incentive Award Winner 2019
Exhibitions
Pretty Doomed, Ugly Duck, 2023
Rally x @Disturbance, Installation with Deen Atger & Elodie Grace, London
In the Soil Arts Festival, Solo Show, Artist In Residence, Canada
@Disturbance Magazine Launch, publication designer & installation, Ugly Duck, London
Meet Me at the Pulse of Dawn, group show, 2023, Ugly Duck, London
Re-Generations Solo Show, ARE Holland, Artist in Residence, 2023, The Netherlands
Installation, Group exhibition, 2022, Runt of the Litter, Oslo House, London
Wax Sculptures, Group exhibition 2022, Tendrils, Queer Youth Art Collective, Queer Circle, London
Projection, Group exhibition, 2022, Qwe’re, London
Film, Group exhibition, 2022, Trans Tales for Toxic Times, Ugly Duck, London, Cas Bradbeer
Installation, Group exhibition, 2022, Un/Sense, Christie’s, London, Kolletiv Collective
Paintings and Prints, Show, 2021, Cirrus, London
Projection, Group exhibition, 2021, ‘@Disturbance 2’, Ugly Duck, London, Deen Atger
Projection, Group exhibition, 2020, Riposte, The Grow Tottenham
Audio work, Group exhibition, 2019, Filler Gallery, Brighton
Installation, Group exhibition, 2019, Graduate Show, University of Brighton
Installation, Group exhibition, 2018, ‘Conjecture’, University of Brighton
Installation, Group exhibition, 2017, Lock in Gallery, Brighton
Archives
Queering the Quarantine Archive, Warwick University Department of History
Residencies
In the Soil Arts Festival, Solo Show, Artist In Residence, Canada
Re-Generations Solo Show, ARE Holland, Artist in Residence, 2023, The Netherlands
Resident Artist, Sept 2022, RARA Clapton
Gallery/Studio Experience
Technical Assistant, Copperdollar Theatre, June 2023
Publication Designer and Executive Producer @Disturbance Jan-April 2023
Graphic Designer, Disturbance 4, 2022, Ugly Duck
Communications and Social Media Manager, Feb 2022-ongoing, Ugly Duck, London
Engagement Manager, April 2021-ongoing, Copperdollar Studios, Brighton
Fundraising Assistant, 2019-2020, Copperdollar Studios, Brighton
Invigilator, 2019, Brighton Digital Art Festival, Lighthouse
Retail Assistant, 2019, Art 5 Gallery, Brighton
Group exhibition organiser, fundraiser, 2019, Graduate Show, University of Brighton
Tour guide, 2019, University of Brighton
Group exhibition Media Team, 2018, ‘Conjecture’
Artist Assistant, 2016, Miriam Austin, London
Set Assistant, Lucy Bond, 2015
Volunteer, Creative Youth Arts Festival, 2012
Press
Christie’s Feature Interview, Un/Sense Exhibition 2022
University of Brighton Interview, Graduate Show 2019
Workshop Experience
Collage Workshop, RARA Studios, Jan 2023
Workshop organizer and teacher, 2020-2021, Life Drawing Workshops, online
Workshop collaborator, Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy, 2019, Music Workshop, Somerset House
Workshop collaborator, 2019, LungA Art and Music Festival
Workshop collaborator, 2018, LungA Art and Music Festival
Workshop collaborator, 2018, Tate Exchange
Workshop assistant, 2010-2013, Dragon Drama Improv Workshops
Filmmaking Experience
Video editor, April-November 2021, Regal Roye, online
Videographer, Oct-Feb 2021, Yes Valencia, Valencia
Director and editor, 2021, Tash Lake, Music Video
Videographer, 2019, Beat the Budget
Commissions
Illustrative Christmas Mural, Aubergine Art Gallery, 2021
Illustrative Christmas Mural, Aubergine Art Gallery, 2019
Paintings, Café Verde, 2020
Art Copywriting
Copperdollar Studios, example https://copperdollarstudios.co.uk/an-artists-journey-with-seiko-kato/
Podcast
Vocals and Cornet, Workshop Collaborator, Somerset House, the UNNOW NOW, Vivienne Griffin
