THE WORKS of Ukrainian artist Stas Turina can be seen at a Reading venue for one month.
His exhibition, called Thank You, opens this weekend.
It reveals 22 drawings and watercolours alongsids a collection of smaller sketches.
A repeated feature of the works is the phrase, Thank You, in Ukrainian.
The works appear as faint impressions of familiar graphic forms, and are imprinted with the artist’s message.
Turina’s use of watercolours and the unfinished quality of his drawing qualifies his message with a degree of vulnerability and immediacy.
He was born in 1988 in Makiivka, Ukraine and currently lives and works in Kyiv.
A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, in 2019 he received the scholarship of the Gaude Polonia Program in Lublin.
Since 2018, Turina has been working as a curator for ateliernormalno, a studio for artists with and without Down Syndrome.
His exhibition, organised by Artists For Ukraine, can be seen at Open Hand, Open Space (OHOS) gallery, 571 Oxford Road, Reading.
The event opens on Friday, November 1, from 6pm until 8pm.
Thereafter it runs on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 2pm until 5pm, with the last date being Sunday, December 1.
People can just turn up.
For information, visit: whatsonreading.com and search for Openhand Openspace
