Artist Statement

Memory, place, and the continuity of the female lineage are central to Ola Suprun's artistic practice. She explores how experience is transmitted across generations — through behaviour, repeated choices, and patterns we inherit unconsciously.

Her work questions the boundary between inheritance and individual identity: what do we carry from those who came before us, and what does it cost us to separate from them? As an artist and archivist, she collects ancestral memory and transforms it into new artifacts, treating preservation not as nostalgia, but as a form of rootedness.

At the centre of her practice is the idea of paradise — not as a place, but as a state of being: the moment when you know where you come from. Through these themes,Ola Suprun explores identity, belonging, and the right to know one's own roots.

Biography

Ola Suprun works in the field of contemporary figurative painting and drawing. For over 15 years, she has also practiced as an architect and interior designer. In her artistic practice, Ola explores themes of female presence, inner integrity, memory, and the home as a space of identity.

She works with painting on canvas and paper. Her primary materials include acrylic, oil, graphite, ink, and mixed media. Her parallel architectural practice strongly influences her perception of structure, scale, and composition.

Her works are held in private collections in Ukraine, Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Denmark

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