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Artist Statement:
Petra Stefankova's digital
artworks are based on an early
20th century surrealist
automatic drawing method but
she has adapted these
principles to contemporary
digital art practice using 3D
applications. The surrealist
technique refers to the
psychoanalysis research of
Sigmund Freud, the manifesto
by Andre Breton, and the
drawings of Max Ernst.
The composition and content of
the artwork were strictly led
by internal subconscious
reactions. The process is a
reflection of the artist's
personal experience and the
artist becomes a medium
translating her subconscious
internal reactions into a
visual form playing with
random elements based on the
uncontrolled processes
executed in different, often
strongly emotional life
situations and fragile
moments. Dissimilar to other
methods of random drawing and
form shaping in computer art,
Stefankova's approach strictly
depends on the unique human
perception and interpretations
of her internal and external
world....
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Petra Stefankova Biography:
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Age
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30
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Computer Art
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Surrealism - (1924 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Salvador Dali
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Petra Stefankova is a London based Slovakian illustrator, digital artist, designer and animation art director. She works in animation, advertising and publishing industry for clients such as the BBC, Columbia Pictures, The Economist, Channel 4, Fremantle Media and others.
She studied graphic design at Jozef Vydra's School of Applied Art in Bratislava in 1993-1997, visual communication at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 1997-2003 a film and tv graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2002-2003. In February 2006 she moved to the UK. Since 2002 she has worked in tandem with a London based Lighting TD Roman Vrbovsky and they are founders of Animacia Creative Collective.
In December 2007 she won Channel 4's 4Talent Award for creatives from all creative industries in the United Kingdom and presented her work at GRAPHITE 2007, the digital art exhibition and conference organised by the north American and Australian chapter of the ACM SIGGRAPH at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Her work was exposed widely on shows all around the world (in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, various Japanese cities, London in the UK, USA, Argentina, Columbia, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Alaska, Hong Kong, China, Belgium, Turkey etc).
Australian curator Andrew Chew selected her work for GAS Project exhibition along with a special guest Doze Green from NYC, one of the Top Ten Visual Artists in the world according to Stylus magazine rating.
Her work is in a collection of Museum of computer art in NY and Heritage Museum in Hong Kong as well as in a few private collections in the USA. In july 2007 she was selected for exhibition at Images 31: The Best Of British Illustration in London College of Communication a her work has been published in 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2007/08 by Luerzer and Expose 6 - The Best of International Digital Art published by Ballistic Publishing in 2008.
From a thousands of entrants she was also selected to exhibit within the digital art on environment issues exhibition Common Ground 2008 which will be running across China (starting during Summer Olympics in Beijing 2008), Europe in 2009 and museums and galleries in the USA in 2010.
In April 2008 in the age of 29 she was invited to join Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in London, the 250 years old organisation which has been at the forefront of economic, political, social, artistic thinking, a catalyst for constructive change. The Fellowship is open only to those whose achievements set them apart. The Fellows has been selected leading personalities in science, art, commerce, politics and education, in the past there were people like Charles Dickens, Stephen Hawking, Karl Marx, William Hoghart, Marie Curie, Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and others who achieved something spectacular in the world history. Its Patron is currently HM Queen Elizabeth II, its President is HRH Prince Philip, its Chair is Gerry Acher and its Chief Executive is Matthew Taylor. RSA Fellows were founders of the Royal Academy of Arts and Royal College of Music in London as well.
In July 2008 she presented her illustrative work at ICON5 Illustration Salon in Roosevelt Hotel off Madison Avenue in New York City and on her return to London met Jonas Mekas with his gallerist Harry Stendhall during the screenings in Cafe 1001 in Brick Lane and Curson Soho Cinemas in Shaftbury Avenue which she found an important moment and source of inspiration for her further progress. |
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