About Medea

Medea is originally from Bulgaria and Georgia. She received her artistic education in the „National Art Academy“ (Sofia, BG)” as well as Worldwide thanks to the numerous international education and exchange programs, art residencies and art events she participated in and was awarded with. 

In 2016 she defended a doctorate on “The Role Of Colour In Textile Art. Authors (1960 / 2010)” . 

While she was a Ph. D. student as well as two years after graduation, she also was a teaching assistant of modern and contemporary painting, drawing and art history in the class of Painting in the specialty of “Textile- Art and Design” in the “National Art Academy” until 2019. 

Selected awards, residencies and art events Medea received and participated through the years are: 

-2023 group Show “Vignettes, Interpreting Nostalgia”, BSMT SPACE, London, UK.

-2023 group Show “Obsessed”. Curator Teresa Kureckova. Shoreditch Arches, London, UK.

-27th April/ 25th May- 2023 Self Induced One Month Art Residency “New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in Sketches”, New Orleans, USA.

-In 2022 one month Art Residency in “Print Club London”, London, UK. Silk Screen Printing on Paper with final prints of the artist who are then selected and curated from Print Club London for Print Club London Art Gallery. 

- In 2019 second solo show named “Rules for the Game” in Doza Gallery (Sofia, BG), curated from Ph. D. Yovo Panchev. A painting exhibition, with works from 2015 until 2019 exploring the passion and dedication of painting. 

-In 2019 Art Residency and Cultural Exchange Program “Meet Leshan and Jincheng- Sketching and Communication for Artists from Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC)”, Leshan/ Sichuan and Jincheng/ Shanxi, China. 

-In 2018 first solo show titled “London In Sketches” in Arosita Gallery, (Sofia, BG), curated from Medea. It consisted of sketches of London places and people done mainly in pencil and charcoal on paper. 

-In 2015 Fulbright Visiting Researcher Grant for six months, in the “University of Hawai’i at Hilo”, Hilo, Hawaii, USA. 

-In 2013 two months art residency at “Cité International Des Arts”, Paris, France. 

-In 2013 her experimental tapestry work “Undulated Surfaces” was selected for participation in the competition/ exhibition at the “14th International Triennial of Tapestry” Lodz, Poland. 

Since 2020 Medea is permanently based in London and is full time fine and multidisciplinary visual and 3D artist. Although the dozen techniques, mediums and art fields Medea has been practicing in through all her university art career, she always had special place for drawing and painting, and through the last seven years since Medea decided to move away from the Art University, she focused mainly on live sketching and painting and she developed a unique style of depicting. She calls her artworks on paper- sketches, while most are finished artworks. Her sketches still also are prototypes for her canvases. 

She believes that the most genuine way to capture the energy, motion and mood of the particular moment is through the initial drawing at the time and place of creation. This is the cleanest an quickest way of an idea and feeling to be brought into the material world. 

Medea experiments with different techniques and materials, so she can keep challenging her drawing and painting, as well as, her and her viewers visual perception. She understands her artworks as an abstract rhythm of shapes, lines, brushstrokes, patterns and colours , while the viewers of her works recognise places or themselves, if relevant. 

Through the live sketching and painting she is searching to depict the abstract rhythms and energy of life, anything that triggers her vision of that special abstract and sometimes surreal rhythm.