My name is long and unpronouncable- Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte. I'm originally from Vilnius, Lithuania and I have graduated from Glasgow School of Art, Visual Communication.

At the moment I am working on two big personal portraiture projects, requiring a lot of research and interviews. They're both discussing questions of gender and sexual identity in relation to culture and religion.
While being very serious and sensible about them, I am slowly putting together a more free and visual project with a working title "Looking for signs of summer in a rainy country". You can have a wee peek at http://kotrynaula.tumblr.com/

I am also getting my commercial portfolio organized and it will soon be available on my website. My artist CV is available upon request, don't hesitate to contact me.

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I'm confused and I like it.
I like questions with lots of possible answers. I like all the shades between black and white. And all possible colours. I like asking questions with my work. I love answering them when it sometimes happens.
I like to tell stories that I've heard and I like to tell stories that were never told anywhere. My work is all about narrative, and it's usually balancing between reality and fiction. If that's a documentary project that I'm working on, it'll always have poetic or slightly twisted aesthetics. And if that's an absolutely constructed imaginary work- it'll always be based on lots of research and mind- mapping.
I'm fascinated by slightly awkward situations in our lives. Things that are not comfortable, a bit weird and unusual. I like to talk about untalkable.
But at the same time I love watching signs of the so called 'normal' life. The poetry of simple being, the rhythm of certain places: men with newspapers in the cafes, schoolchildren with their uniforms, young mothers with babies on the playground. And then I like to imagine how many 'normal' ways of being there are on this planet.
Diversity of lifestyles, cultures, religions, habits- it makes me slightly dizzy when I think about it. I map it in my head, I draw huge maps with lots of patterns, colours, arrows and letters. This is like a simplified notion of the world that shifts and changes all the time.
After studying in three different schools and swapping sculpture to fine art photography and media art to visual communication, I reached the point where I know things that inspire me most, the ways of working that suit me best and I can judge my own work more easily now.
And i love to learn, I like to imagine the process of learning as an endless one.

I see my work as this big puzzle containing millions of little details that I pick up from everyday situations, from books that I read, movies that I see, conversations and discussions that I have, music I hear, places I visit and faces I see. I got used to having this inspiration all around me, that it's sometimes hard to systemize it, I loose control over it.
I like the beauty, but I'm attracted by ugliness as well. And I sometimes don't know if I'm using those words properly. Beauty of slight disproportion, awkward angles, a balloon trapped in tree branches, foggy morning or rainy rush hour- anything goes. Buildings that are too empty or places that are overcrowded and full of things. Noise and silence.

P.S. I like mandarines and parks and books.