Visual Artist | Photographer | Melbourne
Valerie is an outside of the box visual thinker. She challenges the status quo emanating more meaning from the internal rather than external domains. She delivers the message in the visual concepts familiar to our eye while shifting their colors and shapes in a way allowing the audience to take gradual steps and transform the spirit, mind and attitude.
Valerie is an Australian artist with a bachelor degree in Visual Arts from Monash Uni. Valerie explores the beauty of still life from objects and things around her life. She is inspired by the classical still life paintings, especially from the Dutch and Flemish masters. Her still life often incorporates objects depicting the beauty of stillness, transience, memories, cultures, place, and time. Much of her work uses balanced composition with a sense of tranquillity. Her painting style is realism and she paints predominantly in oil using traditional technique. She also enjoys exploring other subject matters such as flowers, nature, landscape using different mediums.
Valerie's multicultural background gives her a 360 view at the world we live in and see things through. She spent most of her conscious life in Australia while having been born in Crimea (Ukraine). Valerie started drawing when she was five as she looked into the immaculate spirit of the matter and opened the essence for the audience allowing them to evolve in a conceptual way. Valeries' pictures are well known and mostly held in the private collections in Europe (Germany, Italy, Greece, Ukraine), the US and Australia.
Education and Qualification
2004-2009 Bachelor of Graphic design
Kharkiv State Academy of
design and arts, Ukraine
2009-2011 Masters of Graphic Design
Kharkiv State Academy of
design and arts ,Ukraine
Graduated with honors
2008-2011 Bachelor of V…
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Awards
2008 1st place Photoract Contest
2009 second round International
Photography Awards
2010 finalist of Photographer’s
Forum Awards
2010 Silver Award at International
Aperture Award
2010 Alliance Francaise Prize for
Monash University Graduates