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Artist Statement
Structure and transformation
Tatiana Bakulina explores the relationship between line, material and natural form, using drawing, textile and mixed media to examine transformation, memory and cultural association.
Her practice moves between paper and natural silk. She is interested in the point at which a line ceases to function only as a drawn mark and becomes part of a material surface — absorbed by silk, interrupted by texture, carried by colour or placed in tension with geometric structure.
Natural forms recur throughout the work, particularly botanical and marine environments. Rather than functioning only as subjects, they become structures through which rhythm, transformation and the relationship between organic growth and constructed systems can be explored.
Material is an active part of this process. Silk, paper, dyes, ink, acrylic and relief impose different conditions on an image. Across these processes, the work develops through a continuing dialogue between structure and organic growth, control and uncertainty, image and material.
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Biography
Tatiana Bakulina
Tatiana Bakulina is a Saint Petersburg-based contemporary artist and a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2008.
Her practice encompasses fine graphics, mixed media and handmade batik, with a sustained interest in material, nature, symbolism and the relationship between precise line and layered colour.
Working across paper and textile, she uses natural silk and satin, fabric dyes, ink, gouache, acrylic, oil pastel, Torchon paper and mixed-media relief.
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Selected Solo International Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
- 2002
- “Compassion” — University City, Barcelona, Spain
- 1996
- “Dialogue” — ABF, Malmö, Sweden
- 1996
- “Flowers and Stones” — Mirabell Salon, Malmö, Sweden
- 1995
- Solo mixed-media exhibition — Golden Hands Gallery, Lahti, Finland
- 1991
- Solo mixed-media exhibition — April Gallery, Örebro, Sweden
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Social & Community Practice
Practice beyond the studio
Bakulina has also led long-term social and community work through the IMENA+ Regional Charitable Public Organisation in Saint Petersburg, working with vulnerable groups including people living with HIV and people affected by incarceration, addiction and social exclusion.
This experience is presented as part of her biography and public practice; it is not used to assign unverified social themes to individual artworks.
