SWAMP STORY
Swamp Story explores falling in love through paintings and comics: loneliness and anticipation, erotic tension, passion, and the difficulties of being together and apart. Its protagonists are swamp creatures whose stems and buds allow them to communicate and breathe underwater. Rooted in personal experience, this fictional world brings together Estonian wetlands and lush southern vegetation.
Solo exhibitions:
Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia, 2026 — expanded presentation featuring a new central triptych.
KOOLA Art Space, Helsinki, Finland, 2025.
TORSO
The series brings together female figures, flowering plants and vivid colour as a means to explore eroticism and sexsuality.
Works from the series were presented in Blossom and Bosom, a joint exhibition with an Estonian artist TALIA, in Pohjala Tehas, Tallinn, Estonia in 2024.
More photos: The ERR Culture News
TRAM PAINTINGS
Das Atelier an der Donau in Austria
During a 2022 residency at Das Atelier an der Donau in Austria, I explored the history of the Ybbs tramway, which closed in 1953. Historical books and photographs provided starting points for the paintings.
Birch Tram, acrylic on canvas, 60x40, 60x80, 60x80, 60x40, 2022.
Passenger Pigeon
The exhibition takes its title from the extinct passenger pigeon, drawing a parallel between the loss of a species and the disappearance of tram networks. Bringing together freely flying birds and rail-bound vehicles, the paintings reflect on the fragility of nature and technology, and the lasting consequences of human decisions.
Solo exhibition Passenger Pigeon at Staapli Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2022.
Exotic Tramways (2021)
Electric boxes along the new tram network in Tampere, Finland, commissioned by Tampere Tramway Art Program.
Images feature iconic tramcars - Tatra KT-4 (which is used in Tallinn) and Melbournian W-class car - surrounded by landscapes and birds typical for Estonia and Australia.
The work is also included in the online exhibition Birds in the Archive and Museum by Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
