Artist Mina in spotlight at The Wilson

Mina Stefanovic, who started her creative journey studying Art Foundation at the University of Gloucestershire, presents her new exhibition, The Art of Lines, at The Wilson in Cheltenham from Friday 2 September. This is The Wilson’s first solo artist exhibition in the Sir Charles Irving Community Art Gallery.

Mina is an exhibiting and working artist, and after studying BA fine art at Central Saint Martins she went on to study an MA at Royal College of Art. Additionally she has exhibited at the Tate Britain, Tate Modern and Wellcome Collection as a part of the group show. This summer, she undertook an artist residency in collaboration with Strike a Light and University of Gloucestershire.

Mina draws inspiration from the movement and fluidity of the body form. Her art involves exploring shapes through fragility of a line, and it dwells on qualities of quietness and intimacy, cherishing the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary.

Through her research, Mina started to look at diagrams and maps and their markings. She believes diagrams are not just graphic figures and words on a paper, they are also cognitive machines traversed and activated by disclosure.

Additionally, Mina is interested in mapping body movements through space, making visual sequences and patters. She thinks mapping can be seen as diagram, experiment in thinking that have the potential to evolve and discourses relations between art, philosophy, science. Her practice explores subconscious, body mapping and its trajectory. She aim to question how we perceive, use movement and non verbal information. She finds fascinating to look at fate of an art piece when artist give it one purpose but time, history and society shape it according to their needs.

The Art of Lines continues until 25 September, and you can find out more about the exhibition and related events by visiting The Wilson’s website.