Olha Pryymak

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About

Olha Pryymak is a Ukrainian-born artist based in London, graduating in 2023 from Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting. Her most recent shows include: ‘Positions (Part One)’ Alma Pearl Gallery, London 2023, 'High Official at Scoop' Saatchi Gallery, London 2023, 'Friends and Family' Hong Kong Art Basel OVR with Pi Artworks 2022, 'Stand with Ukraine' fundraising exhibition, Hales Gallery, London 2022, RAW at Soho Revue, London 2022 and the Festival of Intimacy, UCL, London, 2021. 


Work is currently showing at:

London School of Economics, At the Heart of War: Ukrainian resilience and resistance through art, hosted by LSE Festival, 'People and Change'

Alma Pearl Gallery, 'Positions', a two-part exhibition curated by the writer and critic John Slyce, 10 June - 5 August, Haggerston, London

STUDIO WEST, 'The Angel in the House', an exhibition of six UK-based female painters, 22 June - 20 July, Notting Hill, London


Statement

Olha Pryymak collects plants and their cultural meanings. Her most recent body of work takes the viewer to the Wild Garden on Regent’s Canal in front of Alma Pearl Gallery, originated by the Wild Gardeners of Haggerston. As she tends to the garden, marking the changes in plants’ growth, their flourishing and decay, she plays out the drama in her paintings, animating them in relation to the hidden, spirit-like, disembodied female characters entangled in an intimate relationship with the plants. The structure of the project stems from a fairy play from the ecofeminist 'Forest Song' by Lesya Ukrainka (1911). 

Image credit @ Gregor Petrikovic

Can’t believe you are sharing this, this could save the world

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 140x180 cm

To seduce with the beauty first

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 130x90 cm

Thanks for the tea and asks for planes

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 140x180 cm

Gender is very limiting in a song

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 96x76 cm

February

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 42x30 cm

Made fictions about self and repeated addendum

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 32x40 cm

90% perfect

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 89x118 cm

Desires stated

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 120x195 cm

First sense of communal life-threatening danger, aged 6

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 130x90cm