Indianna Solnick graduated from an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2023 and a BA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Art in 2017. She was a recipient of the Haworth Scholarship for Painting 2021-2023 and the Retreat Prize 2017, and was shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Award 2023. She is based in London and Helsinki.
Indianna’s practice is concerned with a storytelling of land and lived spaces, tracking patterns in the structuring and infrastructure of our environments. These stories are told partly through material choices and partly through form, diagram and narrative. Her vibrant semi-sculptural paintings deploy paper and domestic waste materials to surprise the viewer with a balance of material sensitivity and dramatic forms. Thin lines and spiral forms of paper pulp project from the wall, demarcating internal landscapes. Drifting between categorisations, they evoke portals or thresholds. Surfaces are built from composites of paper, continually dismantled and rebuilt. Paintings expand from the wall, wrapping and spiralling to form interior voids, enclosures and passageways. Simultaneously sincere, fragile, awkward, funny and bold, they prod at the construction of our lived spaces, questioning the human relationship to a more-than-human world, and probing at the alienation of bureaucratic and unsympathetic architectures. Working also through text, Indianna uses writing as a notation of her walking practice and a site in which to draw out a language of landscape.
CV
[2023] MFA Slade School of Art
(2017) BA Wimbledon College of Art
(2014) Foundation CCW
Awards
[2023] Adrian Carruthers, shortlist[2022] Haworth Scholarship for Painting
[2017] Retreat Prize for Painting
Exhibitions & Events:
[2023] ‘Catch’, solo show, No Show Space, London
[2023] Slade Degree Show, Gower Street, London
[2023] ‘Total Straw’, Parkhouse Studios, London
[2023] ‘Slide A Glance’, group show at ASC Gallery, London, curated by Ind Solnick
[2022] ‘Dark Skies, Wild Seas’, residency, Cornwall
[2022] ‘Slade MFA Interim’, Gower street, London
[2022]At The Edge Of Safehouse, group show at Safehouse1, London
[2022]Fluid, group show at Espacio Gallery, London
[2022]Burst, group virtual exhibition by Cultivate
[2021] ‘Grasswork’, dual exhibition with Tom Witherwick showing our collaborative work, curated by Meg Stuart, Gallery No.32, London, 12/07-24/07/2021
[2021] ‘Wish You Were Here’, group show, curated by Michael & Sharon Borkowsky, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, 02-03/07/2021
[2021] Flux Review - V2 - Part 2 Virtual Exhibition, group show, curated by Lisa Gray. 04/06-03/07/2021
(2019) Plants Speak, If We Listen, series of symposiums, performances, and workshops.
(2018) The Retreat: This Is Not A Holiday, group show, curated by Sarah Bowden, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham.
(2018) The Retreat: This Is Not A Holiday, residency, Northumbria.
(2017-2019) Art Letter Home, touring group show, organised by China Academy of Art, locations included Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Suzhou Art Museum, Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.
(2017) Currents of Identity, group show, curated by Yang Xu, Crypt Gallery, London.
(2017) Wimbledon Degree Show, Wimbledon College of Art, London
(2017) 109 Nails, group show, Copeland Gallery, London.
(2016) ‘Body Talks’, Words of Art Conference, curated by Dr Zoe Mendelson, Wimbledon College of Art, London.
Press
[2023] Interview, Collect Art Issue 30, August 2023
[2021] Video Interview, Ind Solnick and Tom Witherick, interviewed for Jaguar Arte 27/07/2021
[2021]Interview with Lisa Gray, founder and curator of The Flux Review 12/06/2021, can be read here.
(2020) Jaguar Arte, publication of short story “Tenants of 89a” by online magazine and art gallery.