Arina Apostolova

Arina Apostolova was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine in 1989. Arina has started her artistic journey at Odessa State Academy of Building and Architecture in 2006 where she got knowledge on fine art disciplines as academic drawing, painting, sculpture. Arina lived in China in 2019 and it has had a significant impact on her creative life and development. Her paintings have been exhibited all over China and they are housed in public and private collections. Within her own body of work, she classifies the type of painting as “Composite Realism”, because they involve elements of intense realism combined with abstract patterns and surrealistic dream-like scenes and symbolic images. In June 2022 Arina moved to Australia and she created already 7 mural projects across the country, including large scale skate park mural with local artist Mike Shankster in Queanbeyan, NSW.