Artist's Statement

My work explores states of flux: between likeness and distortion, body and landscape, the personal and the mythic.

Painting, for me, is a form of attunement - a way of listening to the unconscious, to ancestry, to images that feel older than language, while staying rooted in the world around me. One eye open, one eye closed: I draw from life, keep sketchbooks, collect what I see, and let it collide with intuition, chance, and ritual-like attention.

Materiality carries the charge: thick paint, bleeding washes and urgent marks behave like emotion, allowing figures to emerge, blur, resist and transform. The aim is not explanation but resonance: paintings as charged presences that bridge lived experience with something deeper, shared, and numinous.

PUSHKA. b. 1980, London.

Pushka completed two years on the Turps Studio program in 2024.

He is set to do the Xenia residencey in April 2026.

Since 2022 Pushka has run the artists-led mobile gallery Canal Boat Contemporary from a Canal Boat, which also doubles as his studio.

Exhibitions include:

Worlds Still On a Wire, curated by Scott McCraken

Skeuomorph, Greatorex Street Gallery

Slip Slap Slop, curated by Jordan Mckenzie, Safehouse

2023

Year One, OHSH Gallery

Moored Together - Canal Boat Art Fair

EDUCATION

2022 - 2024 Turps Banana art school - Onsite studio programme

2007 - 2009 National Film and TV School - Diploma in Script Development

2005 Editorial Centre - Diploma in Journalism

2000 - 2003 University of Warwick - Degree in Film and Literature, 2.1

1999 Camberwell School of Art - Foundation