Ayla Dmyterko

Reverence Relic I (2021)

Stoneware with charcoal glaze

17 x 23 x 32 cm

Can't catch lost time or the thinning earth (2021)

Oil on linen with poured beeswax frame

40 x 50 cm

If our paths ran parallel (2019)

Oil on canvas, satin vinok ribbons, wooden window pole

160 x 100 cm

Global Talent VISA (2019 - 21)

Woven polypropylene sack, cotton embroidery thread

105 x 58

Ayla Dmyterko is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Her work reactivates cultural memory in response to epistemological injustices to locate sites of transformation. Disrupting chronological interpretations of history, her anachronisms draw upon the vernacular, theoretical, tacit, folkloric and ecclesiastical echoing a fragmentary and porous diasporic imagination.

Working across moving image, painting, sculpture, textiles and text, her installations disintegrate hierarchies of knowledge and forms of artistic labour. Solastalgic, her eco-feminist intentions inform the framework of her projects, seeking remedy in slower paces, community-building and intracultural dialogue. Oscillating between reverence and regeneration, she examines spectres of eternal recurrence to understand ways that images and practices become mediums.

Upon completing her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2020), Dmyterko was awarded the Graduate Fellowship through the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Her most recent solo exhibition Pour the Fear: Solastalgic Synchronicities was presented through Lunchtime Gallery (Glasgow).

Previous exhibitions include The Tale Began with a Beet (It Must End with The Devil) at Projet Pangée (Montréal), Ritual & Lore at The Art Gallery of Regina, Hush Hush at the Hague Gallery (Canada) and Intermittence at Gallery Aux Vues (Montréal).

Her work was recently featured in KAJET Journal (Romania), written about by Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal in MAP Magazine (Scotland) and interviewed by Caitlin Merrett King for Young Artists in Conversation (UK).