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"The way I come across my themes is generally circumstantial. I intersperse, manipulate realistic representations with abstracted layers into segmented, metamorphic compositions to help me communicate a more complex meaning: the modern reality, as I see it: facts with veils of expectations, emotions, and (valid or incorrect) explanations, a different point of view. 

Allowing myself to be impulsive when working, blurs and obscures some details, emphasises others. I confuse the scene: facts become impressions, almost undecipherable, expressing more of my emotional state than the reality of the reference, consequently offering new interpretations. When I paint, I spin a tale: shifting from the physical context to a metaphysical, visually uniting things that don’t belong, I implant layers of associations."

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A Hungarian born British artist, Orsi's formal education includes a diploma in professional photography, a degree in graphic arts then a Master's degree in silkscreen printing (MKE, Budapest, 2000).

She spent 10 years travelling around Europe, living in Romania, Greece and Switzerland, spending time in Egypt, before settling down in London.

Her work is inspired by the visual legacy of the Avantgarde: works heavily laden with symbolism, irony and drama. Orsi’s analytic paintings with dream-like figuralism and shifted dimensions bear a special quality; directing the attention to different interpretations of the mundane. During her university years she turned from pure monochrome towards the use of colours in her works, and later choosing oil and acrylic paint as her preferred medium. As she has never been able to abandon her earlier interest in the more graphical approach, line drawing still has an important role in her work. 

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education I affiliation

 

2017-23    Member of the Fountain Gallery Artist cooperative, Hampton Court

2015-19  Society of Women Artists' Council member

2015-    Full membership of the Society of Women Artists (SWA)

2014-2015    Associate member of SWA

1999-2019   Member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists (MAOE)

 

1998-2000    University of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hu | MA
(specialized in Silkscreen-Printing)

1993-1998    University of Fine Arts, Budapest – Hu | BA (degree in Graphic Arts)

1992-1993    Photography School, Budapest – Hungary

1991-1993    Student of Benedek György sculptor (Merited Artist of Hungary) 

 

awards I scholarships

 

2018    The Columbia Threadneedle Prize selected exhibitor | Mall Galleries, L'don

2013    ‘Body of Work’ Award | 152nd Annual Exhibition of SWA, Mall Galleries, L'don

1999    First Prize of the National Silkscreen-Prints Competition | Ministry of Public Education of Hungary and the University of Fine Arts 

1998    Scholarship in Rome, at the Hungarian Institute in Rome, Italy

1996    Art Course in Delphi, Greece - University of Fine Arts, Athens 

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exhibitions catalogue

 

recent solo and group shows

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  • 2016 | 28 July - 7 Aug | Society of Women Artists' 155th Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London

  • 2015 | 7-17 Dec | 'A Conjured Up World' solo exhibition @ the Fountain Gallery

  • 2015 | 23 Feb - 15 Jan | 'Interlude' Featured Artist's Show @ Skylark Galleries 

  • 2015 | 20 Jan - 20 Feb | 'Kiss' @ Gallery Different, London

  • 2014 | Dec- 2015 Jan |  'Christmas Collective' @ Gallery Different, London 

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memorable exhibitions in the past

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  • 2014 |  23 - 26 Oct: Affordable Art Fair Battersea,  London 

  • 2014 | 5 - 20 Sept : 'The Society of Women Artists' Curator's Pick' @ Gallery Different, London 

  • 2014 |  30 Aug - 22 Nov:  'From the Other Side' solo exhibition at Riverside Gallery,  Richmond (London)

  • 2014 | 26 June - 5 July:  Society of Women Artists' 153rd Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London

  • 2014 | 12 March - 11 April: "Albion Saluted" solo exhibition at the Hungarian Cultural Centre - Balassi Institute, London

  • 2013-2015: Permanent display at the Skylark Galleries

  • 2013 - 27 June - 6 July | SWA 152nd Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London SW1 Winner of the 'for body of work' award

  • 2013 - March | AAF Battersea

  • 2012 - December | 'Eastern Chics' Go Figurative

  • 2012 – November - March 2013 | 'Outlands' The Architect's Gallery

  • 2009 – Doris Neukomm Galerie, Rehalp - Zurich (solo)

  • 2009 – Art Show Zurich

  • 2009 – Gallery “Testvérmúzsák” , Pomáz, Hungary (invited)

  • 2008 – „1. Schweizer Ungarnhausfest“, Gemeinschaftszentrum, Buchegg, Zurich (solo)

  • 2001 – ’Electrographic’ Biennale (International), organized by Ágnes Haász, Gallery Vigadó, Budapest - Hungary

  • 2000 – ’Miskolci Grafikai Biennálé’ Graphic Biennale of Miskolc city, Hungary

  • 1998 – Hotel Aquincum Gallery, Budapest - Hungary

  • 1998 – ’46. Vásárhelyi Őszi Tárlat’ 46th (National) Autumn exhibition Vásárhely, Hungary

  • 1997 – ‘BUSZE’: Yearly Medical Conference Budapest - Hungary (with invitation) 

  • 1997 – Budafok Culture Centre, Budapest - Hungary

  • 1996 – Tető Gallery, Budapest - Hungary

  • 1993 – Budafok Culture Centre + the Culture Centre of the Capital, 2 exhibitions to honour György Benedek as Master, Budapest - Hungary

 

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