about - margaritaievaloze

Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze (1997. b. Latvia) is an experimental multidisciplinary artist currently based between London and Riga. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Painting from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, and an MFA in Fine Arts from Kingston University. She is a member of the Art/Work Association at the artist-run organisation Auto Italia and a member of the ACS Society. In 2024, Margarita was part of Frenkiel & Ponti Foundation Residency in Italy, Montenero Val Cocchiara, and The Muse Residency in London. In the year 2022, she was selected for the Venice Biennale Fellowship Programme.

The work of Margarita is a celebration of the poetics of the ordinary. Her practice playfully blends mediums such as sculpture, textile, and hand-drawn stop motion animation. Her research focuses on phenomenology, movement, nature, atmospheric optics, and various forms of memory such as déjà vu and nostalgia. Through her experimental narrative approach in moving image, Margarita makes a dreamlike ontology, to capture the nuances of human perception, illusion and imagination. Her work also combines textile production with the use of found objects. Loze seeks objects with defined functions, such as photo albums and frames, or peculiar objects with odd forms and holes. By blending these derelict objects’ ephemeral qualities with her memories and imagined worlds, she questions the object's phenomenology of appearance.

forthcoming

XYZ Studio group show, London, UK (PV 25th September)

XYZ Studio Award (September 2024 - February 2025)

education

2023 MFA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art, London, UK

2021 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK

2017 Riga School of Design and art: Form Textile design, Riga, Latvia

awards & residencies

2024 The Frenkiel Ponti Foundation, Artist Residency, Montenero Val Cocchiara, Italy

The Muse Residency, London, UK

2023 Project fund by Stanley Picker Trust, Stanley Picker gallery, Kingston, UK

2022 Venice Fellowships Programme, British Council, Venice, Italy