i am an estonian painter, poet and critic. i work with questions regarding the processes related to one's identity. I do this through self portraits and also symbolic transformation of other creatures such as animals or human-animal mutants. my work is in conversation with my own processes and questions about queer identity.
i have graduated painting departments in the university of tartu (BA, 2016) and university of the arts helsinki (MFA, 2025). between these two courses, i studied contemporary art at the university of edinburgh in scotland. while my education is in art, i also have been writing poetry since 2017. my first poems were published in Värske Rõhk in 2019 for wgich i was granted two prizes. later i also started writing criticism, the first text, a literary criticism text, also gained an award granted by Värske Rõhk.
i have exhibited my paintings mainly in the countries i have lived in at the time: estonia, scotland, and finland. i have been professionally exhibiting my work since 2012.
