Ella Zimina
About the artist
Instagram: @ella_zimina_art
Website: https://www.ellaziminaart.com/
Ella Zimina a London based figurative artist.
Her work is greatly influenced by the symbiosis of diverse art styles while in an isolationist lifestyle under the Soviet regime. The duality of social and political regime foundations caused Zimina to question the reality of events and opinions reported by the state media, a struggle between the limits of freedom of expression.
Zimina graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the London Academy of Arts in 2020.
She was first draw to art during her early years, where she attended a youth art school, followed by strict classical training at the Art University of the USSR. Upon leaving the newly fledgling Russian Federation, she started to discover the changing contemporary approach to art, cementing her exploration of new art styles.
There are several projects currently in production across varying forms of medium, focusing on the transformation of modern social norms, exploring the consequences and power of stereotyping, the boundaries between empathy and sympathy as a tool to bypass condemnation, and the modern conception of love.
Zimina conveys her expressions through the movement language of bodies by imprinting a third dimension into a 2D surface, utilising light, colour and sculptural experience. Her technique is always unique to a particular project and adapts to the idea and medium of her ideas, ever changing and evolving.
"On the one hand, my feelings and emotions had to be put aside under the pressure of social norms, as a woman my actions had to be more universal, self-sacrificing and genderless. On the other side, I learned to use my intelligence, through questioning and evaluating to evolve my skills. My experience allows me deep insight into the duality of equality and modernism vs traditionalism."
"On the one hand, my feelings and emotions had to be put aside under the pressure of social norms, as a woman my actions had to be more universal, self-sacrificing and genderless. On the other side, I learned to use my intelligence, through questioning and evaluating to evolve my skills. My experience allows me deep insight into the duality of equality and modernism vs traditionalism."
