Lucy Gogoliuk

Lucy Gogoliuk

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Degree: The Drawing Year
University: Royal Drawing School The Drawing Year
Graduation Year: 2023

New Blood Art Commentary

Lucy Gogoliuk’s watercolours and oils are images of colour and gesture. Looking at their paintings, the application of paint, the brushwork, is immediately apparent to the viewer. Dabbed gestures and soft mark-marking typify their use of watercolours, the dilution of the colours adding a dreamlike softness to the images while providing the viewer plenty to work with, to contemplate. Eschewing conventional perspective in favour of a painterly flatness, the works have a sewn-together quality, the pictorial plane a ground for combining abstraction with familiar motifs and moments of figuration: daily life collides with memory, perception and visual language. For Gogoliuk, this is a means of confronting and transcending trauma while exploring family lineage. The resulting paintings are rich and colourful, endlessly captivating and engaging.

Artist Statement


Group Exhibitions

(2023) The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition, The Royal Drawing School, London, 19-22 Charlotte Road

(2023) The Drawing Year 2023: Open Studios, Space Studios, London, 19 Warburton Street

(2023) Best of the Drawing Year 2023 at Christie’s, Christie's, London, Duke Street gallery

(2023) Sun and Moon, Huang Contemporary, Wuhan, China, The Goose Corporation

Competitions, Prizes & Awards

(2022) Full scholarship for the Royal Drawing School