Ilya Volykhine

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Ilya Volykhine

Living Our Best Lives

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Emerging from behind the iron curtain, my paintings, and works on paper, capture the underlying forces that dominate and determine the conditions of the human psyche. Ink, liquid graphite, charcoal, pastels, oils, homemade dyes… Layering, cutting away, pasting over, collage.

Using old time-worn copies of hand-written letters in Russian Cyrillic from my mother & father and copies of text from my old Russian poetry books, seeking to interweave pieces from the language of my childhood to add layers of texture, meaning, and personal history to my work based on everyday life and situations.

Citizen of New Zealand & Australia. Based in Devonport, Auckland, Ilya Volykhine is a critically acclaimed New Zealand figurative artist. Most recently his work was selected as a finalist in the 2023 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, and also a finalist in the 2021, 2018, 2017 and 2016 Walker & Hall Art Awards, where he won for his figurative art. He was featured as a finalist in the 2016 Adam Portraiture Award. His international accolades include works in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Blake Prize for Religious Art, the Jacaranda Drawing Prize in Australia, as well as, featuring in the Benneton family's Imago Mundi New Zealand Kiwi Consciousness Collection in Italy. Ilya was born in the USSR and he and his family have lived all over the world; Ilya has exhibited and held residencies worldwide, from New York to Estonia. Since moving to New Zealand in 2009, Ilya has exhibited throughout New Zealand in both solo and group exhibitions.

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