2024
June 15th-22nd Hosted at Outlier Studios, London Road, Glasgow The third exhibition of Skarbnytsya carried the weight and curiosity of transition and journey. This third exhibition celebrated contemporary approaches to craft and folk visual art practices. Working with emerging artists who explore ceramics, tapestry making, embroidery, traditional paper cuts and sonic performance. Each approach to these making practices are journeys within themselves, with intricacy and character slowly and scrupulously marked into each weaving, tapestry, pottery, painting and textile. This third exhibition was our biggest show yet, collaborating with 26 artists, 12 from Ukraine and 14 from Scotland. We also welcomed the first edition of Skarbnytsya shop that featured 14 Ukrainian craft sellers ranging from jewellers, publishers and clothes designers. We featured ceramics work by Evgenia Kuznetsova, Ayla Dmyterko and Gorn cermaics. Painting works by Ruby Kuye-Kline, Mayksym Son and Aleksander Kryzhanovsky explored how the human figure is depicted in times of crisis, exploring transience of historical and contemporary monuments. Kuznetsova also known as Jeva Smith Cermaics, drew inspiration from the archaeological monuments dedicated to Celtic culture on the territory of Ukraine and from the mythological story of the Kyivian Rus god Dazhbog. Dazhbog is a figure linked to several historical theories to the Celtic god Dagda. Her ceramic pot, held by the backs of four mythological forest creatures, is a sacred nod to a history that intestines the Scot’s to Ukraine. This third exhibition also featured tapestry work by Glasgow based artist Kuybean Nam and Kyiv based Kseniya Bilyk. Each artist playing with how the traditional tapestry form can be manipulated to reveal negative space. Nam uses code experimentation to break landscapes into abstract forms whilst Bilyk takes the familiar and triggers the visual unconscious, reversing and deconstructing visual propaganda and the homogeneity of mass memory. This most recent exhibition was our greatest exploration in joining artists from Ukraine and Scotland, connecting them through their different and parallel mythologies. Invisible webs were made visible. UKRAINIAN ARTISTS: KSENIYA BILYK BABYN BUCHOK BASNY RUGS AYLA DMYTERKO ALEKSANDER KRYZHANOVSKYI MARY LYDON EVA REPYAH SERGIY ROMASHOV TIMUR ROSTOVYЇ SALT SALOME MAKSYM SON TAMARA TURLIUN SCOTTISH ARTISTS: CHARLI KLEEM CONNOR BEARDSLEY-HODGKIESS DYLAN HOPE EDIE HUDDLESTON ELVEY STEDMAN JACK IREDALE KUYBEAN NAM MIRA KAZAK NATASHA THOMAS THEODORA KOUMBOUZIS RACHEL MARSTON REBECCA LAVERTY ROBYN BAMFORD RUBY KUYE-KLINE Skarbnytsya Shop Skarbnytsya Shop hosted 14 Ukrainian brands with work ranging from ceramics, knit wear, hand carved candles, magazines, Ukrainian literature and jewellery. The shop has become a very important element that we introduced to this year’s exhibition. Creating a space dedicated for people to come and engage with the objects and trinkets became a very personal space for people. This year we introduced domestic home items such as hand carved candle holders by Hutsul Avtentika, a family run business and hand poured bees wax candles by Jura Kudrik. Skarbnytsya worked with Mriya Catalogue to create a bespoke collection of archive postcards fitting to this year’s theme of passage & journey. SOLOMIYA MAGAZINE LOCAL STICKER BOOK ASPECT BOOKS NADRA CONCEPT HUTSUL AVTENTIKA MRIYA CATALOGUE EDERE EDITIONS HATKA CERAMICS FERN FLOWER SHOP GORN CERAMICS EVA REPYAH FATA MORGANA JURA KUDRIK And SKARBNYTSYA EXCLUSIVE MERCH
2023
March 25-26th Hosted at Outlier, London Road, Glasgow Skarbnytsya’s second exhibition at Outlier brought 14 Ukrainian artists in direct conversation with 10 of Glasgow’s emerging artists. Whilst still understanding how to work with the logistical challenges of working with artists on an international scale, we chose to work with photographers, illustrators and print makers for this second exhibition. Artists located in Ukraine or in neighbouring counties, could send their files digitally for us to print and frame, working with the wonderful Craig Krypt otherwise known as Craig Docherty to create the frames for the wall pieces. This exhibition worked between the mode of a traditional gallery hang and art print sale, inviting our audience to have direct interactions with the works by sorting through the tables and digging through piles of artworks and prints. For this exhibition we focused on themes of journey, borders and crossing to neighbouring countries. We focused on communities on the peripheries of homogeneous social groups. Imagery of cages, fences and windows were repeated through the Ukrainian and Glasgow artist’s work: Alister Fletcher’s print of flowers in caged in a glass house and framed using recycled council house fencing, Dasha Chechushova’s embroidered cotton panels depicting the house in a bird’s cage and Rory Wood’s photo series MCKINA, documenting Glasgow’s Makina MCs shot around the abandoned tenements at Port Glasgow. UKRAINIAN ARTISTS: DANI KOTLIAR OLEKSANDR RUDOVSKYI LADA VERBINA YAN YASSIN / LOCAL STICKER BOOK OBIES INCERTÆ ARCHIVES MARY LYDON SOFIIA VINNICHENKO YULIA SUDARCHYKOVA EVA REPYAH VLAD KYRYLENKO MARKIYAN ZADUMLYVYI ANDREY TSVETKOV UK ARTISTS: ZOFIA SZEWCZYK THOMAS CONNOLLY RORY WOOD EWELINKA DOCHAN MAGDALENA SZCZERBA MICHAEL MERSINIS NATASHA THOMAS RACHEL LOUISE HODGSON JOSEFINE LANGE ELVIS PATTIRSON
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2022
June 4-5th Hosted at The House Arts Collective, Bell Street, Glasgow The first rendition of Skarbnytsya exclusively displayed the work of 9 Ukrainian artists from Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv. Working DIY style, this exhibition was the humble beginning of Skarbnystya, hosted at The House Arts Collective at Bell Street, Glasgow. Artworks included, the photographic portrait series by Pavlo Tyshchenko, the comical video installation by Bogdan Tsyganiy, the delicate embroidered wood sculptures by Dasha Chechushova and Tenio’s industrial experimental tapes. Tyschenko’s series was like a parallel mirror to Glasgow’s city life. His dynamic flash portraits of people in motion, moving through the city, finding their business on the streets are beautifully contrasted by portraits of people finding refuge in a plastic chair to fall asleep in the commotion of city life for some hours. Tyschenko’s style brings humour to the city’s absurd moments, the ones where we watch from the corner of our eye. He documents the clothes left behind from market stalls, day parades or night ventures. The palette of his photo series is iconically Ukrainian with blues, yellows, strong shadows, reds and open skies. Salo, red leather boots and gold teeth shine in Tyschenko’s flash snapshots. Danil Nemyrovskyi exhibited three illustrations of front line realities from Kharkiv. Nemyrovskyj digitally draws a spilt page of scenes in the effort to juxtapose the realities faced by Ukrainian people experiencing war: injured soldiers walk out from the disasters of the explosions in cityscapes whilst mothers hold their babes close in underground train stations and make shift bomb shelters in the basement of apartment blocks. This first exhibition of Skarbnytsya was Glasgow’s first introduction to such a selection of emerging Ukrainian artists. It paved the way for the second iteration where we brought Ukrainian artists in direct conversation with Glasgow’s emerging artists. ARTISTS: BOGDAN TSYGANIY DANIL NEMYROVSKYI DASHA CHECHUSHOVA EVA REPYAH MARKIAN RUSUL MARY LYDON OBIES PAVLO TYSHCHENKO TENIO
