Emilija Pliaukštaitė is an experimental printmaker merging print techniques with photography processes and sculpture. Her work often centers on imagery of the crowd, reflecting on our collective experience of the world, both external and internal chaos, emphasizing their inherent connection.
Her creative process resembles a form of prayer. She collects images of people from magazines and newspapers, assembling them like beads on a rosary, with each person becoming a subject of meditation.
Pliaukštaitė experiments with materials like bleach, gold leaf, ceramics, and plaster, recently incorporating techniques of chemigrams and photograms. Each of which underscores the fragility, fragmentation as well as sanctity of being human.
With her latest series “Solutions” she is trying to visualise the human desire to make sense of the world – our urge to fix, organise, and resolve - to find solutions to the world’s problems. The Process of chemigrams takes a clear image that is put together of photographs and breaks it down and abstracts it. The viewer is invited to figure the image out.
The deterioration of the image resembles the breakdown of our society, our individuality as well as community. By incorporating sudoku puzzle and numbers, she question the illusion of order and control, how such framework often merely shuffles problems rather than solve them, how we just push numbers around.
Artist statement
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Education
2024-2025 MA Print Royal Collage of Art, UK
2019-2022 BA Fine Art Falmouth University, UK
2011-2018 Justinas Vienozinskis art school, Vilnius, Lithuania
Group Exhibitions
2025
“ARK|Parrhesia” Publication – as – Exhibition, Exibition – as – Publication, Hockney Gallery, London UK
"Enfolded Journeys" exhibition at Leeds library to coincide with the PAGES Artists' Book Fair.
The Art Book exhibition will tour to:
Appleby-in-Westmorland TIC (3-14 June 2025)
Dunoon MOCA (12 July-2 August 2025)
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum
Doncaster (May-July 2026)
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice (September 2026).
“In Betweens” Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery, London, UK
2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
“Ištakos” (Origins) at Galerija Namukas, Vilnius, Lithuania
“Tribute” with Uncovered Collective at Safehouse, London
“Directors Cut” Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair online show
“Interstitial. Rituals of the Betwixt and Between” at Safehouse 1, London
“The Entranced Essence” at Rupture Xibit, London
2023
“POST-FACTUM” at Phenix Art Space, Brighton
“20:20 print exchange” at the Goldfish Bowl gallery. Falmouth, UK
“EMILIJA PLIAUKSTAITE TOM LONG” at the Goldfish Bowl gallery. Falmouth, UK.
2022
“A30 at No20” at No20 Arts, London, UK.
“Falmouth Showcase” UK.
“Numinous Hive” at the Gold Fish Bowl gallery. Falmouth, UK.
“Miniatures” at Grays Wharf gallery Penryn, UK.
2021
“Introduction” at the Goldfish Bowl gallery. Falmouth, UK.
“Extended exhibition” at Portland Gardens, Falmouth, UK.
“Woodlane Windows” Falmouth, UK.
“Street View Falmouth” UK.
2019
“Three house exhibition” Falmouth, UK.
Commissions
2022 Poster for “Mark, movement, and conversations” Shallal workshops and exhibition at the Gold Fish Bowl gallery, Falmouth, UK.
2022 Poster for “A30 at No20” exhibition poster.
Experience
2022-2024 Art technician in Woldingham school, UK.
Leading CPD’s and printmaking workshops.
2017-2022 leading art classes in “Nemradas” summer camp for children 7-14 years old in Nemunelio Radviliskis, Lithuania.
2018 “Peer Guide” at the exhibition “All art is about us” at Mo Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania