VITA SEQVETUR - informal version
Childhood island
Rab, Croatia, teen years boarding school in Zagreb. Graduated at the
wonderful School
for applied arts and design in Zagreb, followed by Fashion design on
Institute
for textiles, the only near to applied arts course available at the
time. This was dull and unchallanging course ( and it is still so) with
poor facilities and sadly tailored curriculum. So I chucked it. Instead,
I decided to pause to think it over and went travelling to Middle
East, India
and Nepal
for the winter 87/88. On return I got employed by
Rima - a marketing & publishing company from Rijeka as a gallery assistant
in "Duke's palace gallery " in Rab and worked there until the turbulent
1990ties. I was 22 at a time and thought to return to study to get a degree...
But after the bombardment of Zagreb during one of the exams in autumn 1991
I had it enough and left for UK where I stayed on-&-off basis for almost
3 years; I was not too happy about it, but otherwise it seemed bad choice
for my soul to stick arround in homeland. I also couldn't have done
much with my pacifist ideas at that time. As of years in UK, I stayed in
London all the time, with couple of excursions to Brighton and Isle of
Wight.That was big enough world for me. Time
in London was spent on endless city walks; from nearby Heath
whereabout I lived, all the way to Bank and West End. Of course touring
galleries,
museums,
libraries and taking part-time studies was besides babysitting Beth, Binnie
and Maddy my main preoccupation. Thanks to my hosts - Grossmann's Madness
fan family, I enjoyed it most of the time. During textile screenprinting
art classes at the
Hapmstead
School of Arts; with a Fine
Artist David Carr as the Headmaster at the time, where I met K.D.Baldwin,
a part-time teacher at the time, talked me into applying for BA course...
I actually won the place for the BA in textile arts on Goldsmiths
collage but refused to go for refugee status or do a bogus-marriage
in order to study, hence did not manage to sort out funding ie. the tuition
fees. UK immigration rules show how Education is declaratively
for everyone, but in reallity out of the reach for those that are not rich.
Understandable, considering that education is one of the Britain's best
export product ( after music). Just as many others, I was enchanted
with this metropolis, but unlike others, I did not want to conform through
lie. Thinking of it today, as a member of the country always somewhere
'inbetween', i concluded it is very sad that most of 'other nationals
or aliens or 3rd or underdeveloped' put their values under western scrutiny,
as if the values between these worlds are the same... At that time I too
thought that even though I ''failed'', at least I knew I had potential
and that this will eventually come to its end. In fact, noone can give
you good enough credit to assure you of your own worth nut many will try
to convince you that you are worth less. The secretary of Mr Al Fayed of
Harrods where I applied for grant put it nicelly; "Do you think Mr Al Fayed
would be so rich if he was giving away his money just like that?" ( as
if all that is deed of his sole work ). So, having failed to put the money
together or find a sponsor, I finaly came back for good in 1994. My friend
Sheran
whom I met in 1993-4 at the Citylit
on a screenprinting course couldn't believe I'd leave. But it wasn't all
for nothing; I learned the lanquage, did lots of applied courses
( profficiency in english, screenprinting, computing, pattern cutting and
modeling courses), made some very nice friends, seen great museums and
exhibitions...
A friend of mine
- Ivana from Split, whom I met at the Hapmstead
Garden Suburb Institute, said english tomatoes do not have the taste
at all so it is good to go home... Reason good enough, what do you think?
( Mind you, just recently 'croatian' tomatoes started to taste very much
the same.) After return to Croatia and Rab I worked in the family agency
and went shortly to a horse farm in Germany. As of art career, I participated
on several Ex-Tempore events and had my solo exhibition at the SKUC Gallery
in Zagreb. In 1996 the death of my younger sister in Italy swept my family
off the feet. The exhibition "Wanted" at the MMe Lillie's Quarter century
show was dedicated to her. I settled back on the island since '96 and work
in family travel agency.
Coming from completely different background ( artist) I had to complete
travel profficiency courses ( for the office manager and travel guide).
I have been working in the agency since and have gained hands-on experiences
about running an agency and other related skills ( like secretarial work,
PR, marketing, promotions, negotiating skills to in-house material designing
and a travel guide)...
As of Art, where
am I today? Dedicated to Virtual art online.
I am for a life-long
education and am learning by myself through different unconventional means
in spare time. I have thought myself html standard 3.0, got aquainted with
Dreamweaver but still preffer pure html lanquage and editors like Arachnophilia.
I work with a combination of different computer photo programs to get the
best outcome in the digital imaging.
In the last 7
years I am focused on internet and digital as my primary media of expression
and work. In 2006-2007 I finally returned to hands-on painting as well.
My past artworks are online
in this portfolio, as well as few outlines of the newer works. I also run
an broader project in connection to tourism ( urban-island) and am active
member of ISA,
Rhizome.org,
Absolute arts.com, Artmajeur, D'Art etc. art communities and others.
Art- background;
- traditional drawing
and painting techniques;
- applied arts; incl.
fashion styling & modeling,fashion desing, textile crafts (dyeing,
weaving), silk-screen printing,
- photography:: http://albums.photoworkshop.com/showpic.php?uuid=101&aid=5978&pid=44207
- advertising &tourism
photography http://photos.yahoo.com/kristina_tina/
- Featured Album of the
day, April 28, Webshots community: http://community.webshots.com/album/11901933gumIugGRgR
- photographs at http://www.picture.com/display.asp?ID=968551
- http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGall2.asp?camID=2243
- mixed media ::
http://www.rabinfo.net/atelierK/
portfolio project
- Computer and digital
art :: Kristina_Tina :: Digital art ::
- http://dart.fine-art.com/aqd-asp-F_Kristina-L_Maskarin-buy-sQuery.htm
- new media, digital artworks
- http://www.angelfire.com/art2/kristina-tina/
- cultural activism
- http://www.urban-island.org
project - cultural activism
- http://atelierk.digitalart.org/
- portfolio, sections in progress
- http://www.artmajeur.com/kristinamaskarin/
- http://tatet.com/search-kristina_maskarin.html
- world artist directory::
http://accessarts.org/cgi-bin/isc/classifieds.cgi?action=userads&UserID=14919
- digital ornaments:
http://www.rabinfo.net/atelierK/textil/textil1.html
- 2005/ 2006 new works:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=3041