Lithuania

Ruta SIPALYTE（1973）

2006, 22×18×21.5 cm 21.5×15.5×11.5 cm

White low temperature clay from Lithuania, slab building, low temperature glaze, black underglaze, oxidation fired to 1000℃, electric kiln

Ruta SIPALYTE（b. 1973，Lithuania）

Through the apparatus of design I attempt to transform the impediments of urban architecture by drawing upon their noblest character. In my recent works, I was heavily influenced by the architectural forms I saw in Taiwan. In using these forms, I attempted to translate the compacted visual speed of urban architecture into a visual interplay of geometrical forms and planes of color. I undertake these transformations to create enlightened objects, and to allow my work to embrace both design and fine art, which are the two inseparable parts of any work of art.

.Acknowledgement from the Mayor of Vilnius City for the project “LT-identity”

.Sleipnir Travel Grant for Young Professional Practitioners of Art , the Nordic Council of Ministers Information Office

.Scholarship for Residency, the Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale, Norway

.Since 1994 the artist has participated in exhibitions and international ceramics workshops in Lithuania, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Norway, France, and Taiwan and has 9 solo exhibitions in Lithuania.

.1992- 1998 Ceramics Department, MA, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts Applied Arts Faculty, Lithuania

Address Zemynos g. 8–79, LT–06130 Vilnius, Lithuania

Email utra@takas.lt