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Olga Geoghegan
About
Olga Yukhtina - Geoghegan was born in Ukhta in the far North of Russia in 1965.
At the age of ten she was offered a place at the Leningrad Academy of Art's special art school. On leaving school she immediately won a place at the prestigious Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Academy of Art where she began a lengthy, formal training in painting and theatrical decoration under Professor Kochergin, the Chief Artistic Designer at the Maly Theatre, St. Petersburg, which regularly tours to London and other European cities. She worked for a spell in the Kirov (Mariinsky) and Maly theatres as a scene painter before exhibiting throughout Europe. In 1998 she moved to London where she has participated in a number of joint and solo exhibitions. Her works can be found in private collections all round the world.
Olga’s journey has taken her from her birthplace in Ukhta, a town in Russia’s frozen north, built to service part of Stalin’s gulag system, through Leningrad where she studied at the Academy and became embroiled in the bohemian artistic milieu of the ‘80s and 90’s, to 21st century North London where she now lives and works.
Her work is figurative, highly individualistic, and reflects her journey with its timeless theme of alienation. Her canvases are worlds in themselves where her figures, either solitary or in strangely disconnected pairs, emerge from richly coloured impasto as if uncovered there by the artist in her manipulation of the paint. They are extraordinarily moving, if a little unsettling, with their curious blend of pathos and humour and remind one of the portraiture of Velasquez and Vermeer where isolated subjects hold us with their detached gaze. Meanwhile Olga’s still lifes, with objects as isolated as her people, almost verge on abstraction. Yet her opulent palette and perfectly balanced compositions also hold beguiling echoes of the rich canvasses of the Dutch school.
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EXHIBITIONS
2012 Collection Red, Framers Gallery, 36 Windmill St., London W1T 2JT
2011 Claremont Studio, 66 Claremont St., Aberdeen, Scotland
2011 The Scotland-Russia Forum, 9 South College St., Edinburgh,
2011 Galerie Ruine, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Square, London
2010 Silvana Gallery, Glendale, California, USA
2010 Marbella International Art Festival, Marbella, Spain
2010 The Russian, Eastern and Oriental Art Fair, Park Lane Hotel, Picadilly, London
2008 The Scotland-Russia Forum, 9 South College St., Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Artist’s Kew. The Royal Botanical Society, Kew Gardens, London.
2006 Artists’ Kew. Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street and Kew Gardens.
2005 Annual Exhibition, Prince Charles’ Drawing School, London
2005 Exhibition of Contemporary Russian Artists, Solana Art Gallery, GazProm House, Kingston, London
2004 Annual Exhibition. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. The Mall Gallery, London.
2002 The View Exhibition. Waterstone’s Bookshop, Picadilly, London.
2001 Summer Exhibition. John Martin Gallery, Albermarle St., Picadilly, London.
2000 Solo Exhibition. Lauderdale House, Highgate, London.
1999 Group Exhibition. The Association of Russian Artists, London
1998 Solo Exhibition. The International Cultural Centre, "Dom Druzhby". Petersburg. Russia.
1989-1997 Selected by the Petersburg Union of Artists to exhibit at their annual Summer and Winter Shows. Manezh Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg.
1992 Group Exhibition, 1020 Gallery. Vienna. Austria.
1991 "Apteka Poel" Merz Gallery London. England.
1990 Group Exhibition. Concordia Foundation. London. England.
1988 “Drawings and Paintings by outstanding young artists from the Leningrad Academy of Art”. The New York Academy of Art. U.S.A.
1988 First Exhibition of Independent Artists. St. Petersburg. Russia.
1988 Exhibition. "In Celebration of 2,000 years of Christianity in Russia". The Yelaginsky Palace. St. Petersburg. Russia.
PUBLICATIONS
2006 “Artists’ Kew”, published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, London, Surrey, TW9 3AB, U.K. British Library ISBN No. 1842461435
2005 “A Collection of Modern Russian Art”, published by Solana Fine Art Limited and Gazprom Marketing and Trading Ltd., 60 Marina Place, Hampton Wick, Kingston upon Thames, London KT1 4BH.
2002 “The View. An Exhibition about Richmond Hill”, published by the Asgill House Trust in Association with the London Arcadia Partnership, Asgill House, Richmond, London, Surrey, TW9 1PQ, U.K.
1995 “Academic Drawings”, The Russian Academy of Arts, the St. Petersburg I.E. Repin State Academic Institute of painting, sculpture and Architecture, published by “Izobrazitelnoye Isskustvo”, Moscow.
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