This interview was published on the blog of Create! Magazine on January 22, 2019 as an extension of a print feature in Issue 12 of the magazine. Original post can be found here. When did you first start experimenting with the idea of experiencing and interacting with...
In November 2017 I had the opportunity to show my new work at one of my favourite galleries in Sydney. This was the first time I was able to create the drawing installation I had been planning for a very long time. This particular installation, titled Untitled (my...
In early 2017 I got a message from Kilometre of Sculpture organizer Michael Haagensen asking me if I would like to re-create my Straight Line public space drawing for Tallinn Art Week in July 2017. Drawing a line through the heart of my hometown was truly an immense...
For two weeks in March 2017 I had the opportunity to present an interactive exhibition at the Window Box of 107 Projects in Redfern. Lonely Artist Looking For A Friend was a project conceived specifically for that space. I created a small display for the Window Box in...
Spectrum Miami is an annual contemporary art fair, featuring international artists and galleries. Its 2016 edition took place on November 30th to December 4th in the heart of Miami’s Arts & Entertainment district. Thanks to the Artbox Projects initiative...
On 15th of July 2016 I will begin a new art project about friendship and loss, performed on the social media platform Snapchat. Each day I spend in my native Estonia I will share a video on my Snapchat Story, which in the end will form a 10 minute long video chain....
Shantell Martin is a huge role model for me and I’ve been meaning to write about her for a while. Her work is simple, minimalist and honest. She is very prolific as an artist and describes her work with the hashtag #DrawOnEverything; which has hugely inspired my...
Recently I did a live broadcast on Periscope talking about this artwork: the story behind it, who this is, why I titled it like this… and more! Here is a video recap of the broadcast. The video is in portrait mode and not exactly HD quality but keep in...
Savusavu, Vanua Levu Vanua Levu is very much the underdog of Fijian Islands as far as tourist destinations – the Western Division and Viti Levu usually steal the spotlight. But wrongly so. Savusavu is a well guarded secret and a place that I have learned to know...
Austin Kleon is the person who says that we should “Steal Like an Artist” and so I’m following his advice. This is something I found from his blog that I just needed to re-post because I totally agree with everything he says and I think it’s a...
This Blog Hop is a fun project that connects artists, designers, writers, illustrators and more from around the world and helps our followers discover new talent. We all answer the same four questions about our creative work and then tag the next person to do the...
This blog post is a part of the ’20 Things You Might Not Know About Me’ Blog Tag started by April from Blacksburg Belle. She began this blog tag experiment to build community among creatives, help us bloggers to connect more and get to know each other better. This...
Kilometre of Sculpture, held in Rakvere, Estonia between June 28th and July 13th was my first chance to participate in a public art exhibition. Here are some pictures of my installation Sirgjoon (Straight Line); photos by Michael Haagensen. I have included the...
Bula! This is my very first video blog from Fiji. I am equally excited and terrified to be sharing this and putting myself out there in front of the camera. This is a big leap outside of my comfort zone. But then again, so is sailing! I hope you will enjoy watching my...
People can have funny preconceived ideas about what sailing is all about, especially when they have never set foot on a boat. It seems that the image they see when I say “I’m sailing in Fiji” is of half-naked bodies lounging on the deck of a luxury yacht,...
I will probably kill my limited internet data plan by posting this but thought I’d share this shaky little video of my long journey from Tallinn to Fiji. The morning of my departure day I was woken up by a text message from Finnair saying my flight was...
Have you noticed that places start to look a lot better as soon as you know you are leaving? This happens to me all the time. I get into this state of super-awareness mixed with melancholy and start noticing all of the astonishing details, marveling at beauty in...
The past couple of months have been pretty life changing for me. I have spent long days and nights locked in at my desk: questioning, re-thinking and learning. And what a steep learning curve it has been! Thanks to CreativeLive and people such as Ann Rea, Brené Brown,...
Brené Brown is my new #shero. Her TED talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the most watched TED videos ever. And for a good reason. What makes it even better is her subsequent talk. If you are not yet familiar with her work I suggest you watch those two...
I know it’s the strange thing to say but I don’t really like Paris all that much. It’s expensive, dirty, the traffic is mad and people on the subway look like they are about to have a nervous breakdown. Don’t get me wrong, Paris is beautiful: the French people, the...
In my previous post I promised to share the next phase of this drawing if someone guessed where the scene is from. Thankfully one person did comment (woop!) and thus I have an excuse for posting this. Ah, the life of grassroots blogging! (I guess blogging is a bit...
I’m not sure how this is going to turn out but I was so excited to be working on some brand new drawings I thought I’d share the progress with you guys! If someone can guess in the comments which country this scene is from I promise to post another picture...
I haven’t made any videos in so long so I’m really happy to share this one with you. It walks you through my drawing process from the soucre image (photo) to the very final version. I’ll admit I might have exaggerated a bit with the indecision...
I have been doing the last finishing touches on some new drawings and decided I needed to take a step back and see what they will look like as a finished object. But printing out a proof in the size I want would be rather costly, especially since ideally these...
Here is something new I made as an experiment, I call them photo-drawings. There was an open call for an exhibition in Romania titled “A Photo from Oz” and I really wanted to participate seen as I have spent quite a lot of time in Australia and should...
I have been working really hard to tick off all the things on my ever-expanding to-do list so that I can finally sit down and draw. Yes, I have realized that because I see drawing as pleasure and not work – in fact it is one of my favorite activities of all...
I had the honor to be invited to participate in this year’s (and first ever) Tallinn Light Biennale that took place from November 24th to December 1st. It featured two indoor exhibitions and several public space installations with Estonian and international...
Here are some photos from my recent solo exhibition in Rundum, Tallinn. It opened on November 14th 2013. That same night we also held an Artist Talk where a representative from the local animal rights group (Loomade Nimel) Kristina interviewed me about the connections...
Here is a time-lapse of the wall drawing progress for my solo show in Rundum Artist-Run Space in Tallinn. It is a drawing of the Sea Shepherd ship M/V Bob Barker based on a beautiful photo taken by Jo-Anne McArthur (We Animals). The whole process only took something...
My long-awaited LEDs did arrive on Monday but turned out to be a completely wrong colour compared to the previous ones, making the pictures look purple. So yesterday I had to travel far and wide and visit parts of Tallinn I didn’t even know existed to find...
As I have just announced in my second Newsletter – the recently mentioned exhibition project proposition for Rundum Artist-Run Space has very quickly turned into my very first solo show and it is opening already on November 14th! So for the past week we have...
When I was studying art in high school I could not comprehend why one teacher never seemed to be satisfied with my portrait drawings. I was able to achieve such great resemblance with the subject through meticulous shading and pencil smudging – the perfect use...
Here is a sneaky-peaky of one of my light boxes (with Tallinn city lights in the background)! This one is called “Big Glove”, it is part of a series of light box drawings entitled “Ship Life” that retrace moments of my time spent onboard one of...
As promised in my last post: here is a comparison of two similar drawings. The one on the left was done using a graphic tablet and the one on the right was done the old school style – with pen on paper, later scanned. Even though the subject and style are quite...
I used to do all of my drawing the classical way – using pen and paper. Sometimes I would add some color with felt pens and then scan the image to expand its potential uses. Which is part of the reason why all my original drawings are on A4 size paper. I treat...
On my way to Australia I stopped in Kuala Lumpur for a few days and stayed at a true CouchSurfing House with very generous hosts who had travelers passing through all the time. On my last night we went out for some street food and met this French girl who was...
After I received my Master’s Degree in Visual Arts from Strasbourg University I decided to travel to the other side of the world and visit Australia. This drawing is of my friend with a local farmer sitting around the fire in the bush on our very first night in...
