Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze (b.1997) is an artist born in Latvia, currently living and studying in London. Margarita is working across hand-drawn stop motion, drawing, writing, embroidery and sculpture. Cross-disciplinary, she further explores the poetic world-wandering, intimacy and memories through the narratology of discontinuous remembrances and myths. She often uses found objects as a surface to create work on, blending derelict objects' ephemerality with imagination.
Margarita is currently enrolled in MFA Fine Art at Kingston School of Art. She has exhibited and screened her work in UK, Turkey, Finland and Latvia. In 2022, she was selected for the Venice Fellowships programme for la Biennale de Venezia 2022, to develop her proposed project while stewarding the British Pavilion.
currently
2023 Venice Fellowships Programme Final Showcasing, online (February, link to be announced)
2023 Red in Tooth and Claw, FILET space, London, UK (PV February 23, 6 PM)
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
selected exhibitions & performances
2022 Reflections, Blanco Gallery, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
2022 SOFT EARTH, espacio gallery, London, UK
2021 Final Notice, Wimbledon College of Arts BA Fine Arts Degree Show, London, UK
2021 Four Hands Meet / Concert Dessiné, hARTSlane gallery, London, UK (live drawing performance)
2020 Tanzlar Theatre, White Bear Theatre, London, UK (stage set)
2019 Above the Ground, 29th International Istanbul Art Fair / Istanbul Sanat Fuari, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 TRACES, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
selected screenings
2022 An Afternoon of Artist Film, MicroActs at Fervor Festival (Retrospective of 5 years), Toulouse Lautrec, London, UK
2022 Art Festival Turku - VAFT, YHTEISTYÖNÄYTÖS, Collaboration screening: Natural Proximity with art centre NOASS Latvia, Turku, Finland
2021 MOVING HARTS, hARTSlane gallery, London, UK
2021 MicroActs9 International Artist Film Screening, London, UK
2020 MicroActs6 International Artist Film Screening, London, UK
grants & awards
2022 Venice Fellowships programme, British Council, 59th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale de Venezia 2022, Venice, Italy
interviews
2021 Moving Harts Interview with Margarita Ieva Loze By Rachel Lonsdale
2020 Saruna ar Rebeku Brālīti un Londonas Mākslas Universitātes Studenti Margaritu Ievu Lozi