Group Exhibitions and awards
2022 - Arts Council DYCP Grant for developing sculpture practice
2023 - A self portrait from When I Grow Up I'm gonna Kiss You - Self Portrait By The Mirror - Tbilisi National Gallery
2023 - Tell Me When You See It - Fungus Gallery - Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 - Chai Khana - A grant to start project about Queer Georgians - Two Homes
2022 - A selection of work from the series When I Grow Up I'm gonna Kiss You - No Human Art Week, Aachen, Germany
2022 - A selection of sculptures - 'Crafting Ourselves' festival at Ugly Duck. London
2021 - Selection of black and white images - The Photocopy Club - London
2020 - When I Grow Up I'm gonna Kiss You - Tbilisi Photo Festival
2020 - I_Residency: Projects created by female artists duos during isolation
2020 - Fear of The Nipple - Photo Scratch - See. Discuss. Feedback.
2020 - Fear of the Nipple, Thessaloniki Queer Art Festival 2020, "What Is Fear" - Online
2020 - A selection of work documenting queer communities in London - "QUEER ART(ist) NOW" - London
2020 - A selection of work from the series Being Loved Isn't Easy for You - "Queer(ing) Space" - London
2019 - A selection of work from the series Being Loved Isn't Easy for You - "Riposte" at Tottenham Grow, London
2017 - A selection of work from the series Being Loved Isn't Easy for You - MEDULLA, The Depot, London
Interview
2021 February - When I Grow Up I'm gonna Kiss You - DARKROOM Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
Contact
Bio
I am a queer Georgian artist, based in London.
In 2017, I made my first short experimental film which premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival. The film was made from a need to deal with the inner world rather than the outer world that saturated my daily life as a journalist.
After making this film, which explored female sexuality, photography became a medium for artistic expression and I started photographing nudes, culminating in self-portraits photographed during the first lockdown in 2020.
In my photographic practice I am drawn to a visual language that celebrates fluidity and allows the subject to navigate the space, rather than be fixed by the gaze of the photographer.
I have been photographing nudes by focusing on the stories that emerge through gesture, posture, choreography and the blurred lines of the gender binary.
Education
2012: MA Digital Journalism, Goldsmiths University of London
2009: MA Media and Communication Management, GIPA