ARTIST PROFILE

Zane Veldre

  • Latvia (b. 1986 in Saldus)
  • Currently in Riga, Latvia.
  • Born in 1986. Lives and works in Riga. Works as a freelance illustrator and painter

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art does not necessarily have to be narrative, but rather visually evocative. I am inspired by coincidences in daily routine. By events who tend to be insignificant, even absurd and comical, but they make up our daily life and experience. My biggest inspirations are coincidental events found in everyday life, art, literature, nature. Signs, words, expressions, that leads from nowhere to some place new. It is the graphic delicacy interwoven in my paintings that could be defined as the key to my artistic handwriting.





BIOGRAPHY

In 2012 I graduated from Painting Department at the Faculty of visual Arts of the Art Academy of Latvia with a Master's degree. Participating in exhibitions since 2005, the most prominent being solo show "1.5 kg of life" in exhibition hall Arsenals Creative Space, in Latvian National Museum of Art in 2013 and the international contemporary art festival Survival Kit 4 in 2012 (Riga, Latvia).