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Drypoint
100 x 50 x 3 cm
2025
Natalja Vikulina’s work begins with historic images that have shaped how sacred stories are imagined. She is drawn to Baroque art, biblical narratives and the ways in which memory is carried through images.
Working with intaglio printmaking, Vikulina explores how visual art can approach experiences that are difficult to represent directly, and how an image can make an unseen presence felt. In Noli me tangere and Ludovica, she focuses on drapery rather than the body itself. The folds hold traces of weight, movement and memory, suggesting a presence that cannot be fully seen, touched or possessed. Veil of the Sky Torn Open draws on Tintoretto’s Last Judgement and biblical descriptions of the sky as a veil or garment. Its open centre suggests both rupture and revelation—a moment when the visible world gives way to something beyond it.
Vikulina graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2017. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025, Willesden Gallery, Centrala, Philosophicum in Basel, Baltic Nights International Art Forum in Riga, and the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod.
Drypoint
100 x 50 x 3 cm
2025
Natalja Vikulina’s work begins with historic images that have shaped how sacred stories are imagined. She is drawn to Baroque art, biblical narratives and the ways in which memory is carried through images.
Working with intaglio printmaking, Vikulina explores how visual art can approach experiences that are difficult to represent directly, and how an image can make an unseen presence felt. In Noli me tangere and Ludovica, she focuses on drapery rather than the body itself. The folds hold traces of weight, movement and memory, suggesting a presence that cannot be fully seen, touched or possessed. Veil of the Sky Torn Open draws on Tintoretto’s Last Judgement and biblical descriptions of the sky as a veil or garment. Its open centre suggests both rupture and revelation—a moment when the visible world gives way to something beyond it.
Vikulina graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2017. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025, Willesden Gallery, Centrala, Philosophicum in Basel, Baltic Nights International Art Forum in Riga, and the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod.