ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a graphic designer by education and I think like a designer, it is difficult for me to see an idea on a blank canvas, I rather see ideas as collages of different images, so I decided not to go against my nature and do what I can do and love. And I love all stages of my creativity – from the most creative – an idea to more mundane ones – planning a photo shoot, creating a digital plot, and the most labor-intensive stage is directly on the canvas.
In my work, I prefer to create fantasy things that exist only in my imagination, it seems to me more interesting than displaying the real world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Yuliia Poliakova was born on July 14, 1987, in Kyiv. A graphic designer by training, she began painting in 2009 and worked with the Bentley Ukraine car showroom. That same year she won first place at the Week of Ukrainian Art and presented her first solo exhibition. For the next six years she worked as a graphic designer. After this creative break, she decided to try a new style that combines painting and graphic design. She now works in a style close to Surrealism, and Saatchi & Saatchi named her one of the 20 most impressive living surrealists. She creates combined works, mostly in the erotic genre, that mix photography, digital art and classical painting.
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