About
Evita Ziemele is a multi disciplinary artist interested in the expression of the bizarreness of the female lived experience, focusing on themes of trauma & body dysmorphia through unsettling and somewhat humorous visual language.
The visual language begins at her wearable sculptures made from tights; clothing that is designed for male pleasure is mutated to deny the viewers pleasure of the female nude.
Her painting practice uses a lurid colour palette and visual signifiers to deny the male gaze and place women at the forefront of the narrative. Incorporating allegory and Greek myth roots her images within the history of painting, whilst subverting the works of these male ‘masters’ in order to express a female perspective; filling the canvas with multiple renderings of protruding breasts and vaginas, antagonistically rendered, in order to wreak revenge on the meek male bodies.
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Group exhibitions:
2024: Other, Smolensky Gallery, UK, Manchester
2024: Ventriloquist, Whittaker Gallery, UK, Rossendale
2023: Quarter Room, Sight Ingested, Japan, Tokyo
2023: Next Door Gallery, UK, Manchester
2023: Rogue Women 2, Rogue Artists Studios, UK, Manchester
2023: Labia Mania, Islington Mill, UK, Salford
2023: The Sound of Glass, On the Rag, UK, Manchester
2022: Winter Fayre - Open Studios, Rogue Artists Studios, UK, Manchester
2022: Connect Life-Drawing Exhibition, Partisan, UK, Salford
2022: Street Tarot, The Order Of the Fool, UK, Manchester
2022: Victory Over the Sun, On the Rag, UK, Manchester
2022: Degree Show, University of Salford, UK, Salford
2022: MADE IT, Short Supply, HOME, UK, Manchester
2022: The Open (3), Salford Museum and Gallery, UK, Salford
2022: Reset The System, West Art Collective, UK, Manchester
2022: Concrete, Gullivers, UK, Manchester
2022: Great to Meet You, Leven, UK, Manchester
2021: Windows of Opportunity, The Haworth Charitable Trust Life Class. - Online Exhibition
2021: 20:20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press, UK, Salford
2021: Text Me When You Get Home, The Impulse Movement - Online Exhibition
2020: 20:20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press, UK, Salford
Curated Shows:
2023: Co-curated Labia Mania, Islington Mill, UK, Salford
2022: Connect Life-Drawing Exhibition, Partisan, UK, Salford
2022: Co-curated Kunstlicker, Peer Hat, UK, Manchester
Awards:
Haworth Charitable Trust Award 2021, Second Place