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Appias Albina
Appias Albina (real name Jevgenija Jones) is a Lithuanian-born multidisciplinary artist and creative director working internationally across art, design, and research. Her projects connect visual storytelling with ecological and cultural narratives — from commissioned installations to independent art series.
I am a visual artist working at the intersection of art, design, and environmental storytelling. My practice connects material research with a poetic sensitivity to time, texture, and memory. Trained in fine arts and graphic design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, I have developed a visual language that merges artistic experimentation with clarity of concept — creating works that exist both as autonomous art pieces and as part of wider cultural or spatial contexts.
Over the past decades, I have been exploring the possibilities of drawing and printmaking through a unique carbon monotype technique — a method I have refined into a personal tool for visual archaeology. By transferring traces of organic and synthetic textures onto paper, I create figurative compositions that evoke notions of fragility, ecology, and transformation. Each image combines imprints collected across Europe and North America — fragments of surfaces gathered over time and transformed into layered visual archives. My works balance precision and accident, visibility and absence, inviting the viewer to read the texture as a memory rather than a touch.
Beyond the studio, I collaborate with institutions, brands, and cultural partners to translate my visual approach into large-scale environments and commissions. These include site-specific installations, wall artworks, illustrations and creative concepts that bring artistic thinking into public and corporate spaces.
Originally from Lithuania and currently based in Spain, I continue to work internationally, exhibiting and collaborating across Europe. My projects often engage with themes of ecology, cultural heritage, and the relationship between human and natural presence. I am particularly drawn to interdisciplinary contexts — residencies and collaborations that connect art with science, ecology, and spatial design.
I am open to new partnerships, commissions, and international residencies that explore the dialogue between art, environment, and visual identity.
Carbon monotype
My process for making art has the spirit of recording. I always collect prints of patterns around me. I collect grass, leaves, fabric and plastic pieces everywhere I go, so I can iron it to make a transportable copy of that surface. My carbon copy paper is always with me everywhere I travel. I store this library of copied nature to the moment I create a monotype.
The process of monotyping for me is also a process of going through hundreds of these visual "records", looking on them like x-rays in front of the light ; the process of examining and creating an image of the final result in my head. I hide, mix, and encrypt textures. I seek to create a pelican that consists of leaves, a moth from bubble wrap, or hot magnolias that will be imprints of north pine needles. I tear the copies of patterns I want to use, and make black shapes of them on white paper. Then I iron it the last time.
I never know if I imagined the final result correctly until I remove carbon copy-paper after ironing.
CV
Born in 1985 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Real name Jevgenija Jones.
A member of the Association of Estonian Printmakers since 2022
A member of the Lithuanian Design Association since 2021
Status of Lithuanian Creator from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture since 2021
Education:
2009-2011 Masters of Arts, Graphic design / Vilnius Academy of Arts / Vilnius, Lithuania
2005-2009 Bachelor of Arts, Design / Vilnius Academy of Arts / Vilnius, Lithuania
residencies/ scholarships:
2022 Artist Residency / Muhu Print by Association of Estonian Printmakers / Muhu, Estonia
2021 Artist Residency / TYPA Printing and Paper Art Centre / Tartu, Estonia
2020 Scholarship for artistic activities / Lithuanian Council for Culture / Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Artist Residency / 9th International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium / Mark Rothko Art Centre / Daugavpils, Latvia
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2024 The Time / Młodzieżowy Dom Kultury nr 2 “Galeria Po 111 Schodach” / Lublin, Poland
2022 The Time / Craft Centre “Menu Kalve” / Druskininkai, Lithuania
2021 Atlas of Forgotten Memories (with Ksenia Shinkovskaya) / Daugavpils Clay Art Centre / Daugavpils, Latvia
2021 Tactile Vision / Esna Gallery / Esna, Estonia
2020 The Time (virtual) / The project was funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture / Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Appias Albina solo / OBMJ exhibition space / Tallinn, Estonia
2018 The Far Shores (with Ksenia Shinkovskaya) / Art Cafe exhibition space / Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 Birds. Boats. / Ludwig Rhesa cultural center / Juodkrante, Lithuania
2015 Monochrome Stories / Novotel exhibition space / Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Sovius / Supreme Court of Lithuania / Vilnius, Lithuania
Group Shows
2023 Traveling Letters ‘23: The Hologram / Titanic, Vilnius Academy of Arts / Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Mirror - Face to Face / Tohisoo manor / Kohila, Estonia
2023 Mirror - Face to Face / Villa Caldogno Art Museum / Vicenza, Italy
2023 Muhuversum / GÜ gallery / Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Feminart / Est Art Space / Madrid, Spain
2021 Supernatural History Museum / Union of Artists / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 The Year of the Bull / Union of Artists / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 Collection of Conceptual Lithuanian Posters Of the 21-st Century / Titanic, Vilnius Academy of Arts / Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 2nd International Print Triennial (virtual) / Cieszyn, Poland
2020 The Phenomena of Natural Phenomena (virtual) / Boston, MA, USA
2020 Humanity in Quarantine (virtual) / Washington, DC, USA
2020 Art Without a Roof (virtual) / Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Vladimir Nabokov’s House-museum / St.Petersburg, Russia
2019 American Design Club: Sound & Vision (as Moon Armada) / Times Square / New York City, USA
2019 Krake Music Festival (as Moon Armada) / Urban Spree / Berlin, Germany
2019 Enabled (as Moon Armada) / Kablys / Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 The Room of Fear / Union of Artists / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 Five Senses / Union of Artists / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 Glass Cocoon / Children Literature Centre / Tallinn, Estonia
2018 Glass Cocoon / Union of Artists, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2018 European Professional Doll Art Festival / Latvian Railway History Museum / Riga, Latvia
2018 Running with the Wolves / Union of Artists / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2018 Running with the Wolves / Children Literature Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2018 Running with the Wolves / Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia
2018 12+1 exhibition / Meno Parkas / Kaunas, Lithuania.
Bibliography
Artist talk: Mahendra Mahey talked to Appias Albina , British National Library's innovation laboratory, July 2021
Selected Images catalogue, Nemunas Art and culture magazine, Lithuania, February 2021
Appias Albina | Ep. 1 , Artist Podcast SMLT, Lithuania, 23 February 2021
In Conversation with Appias Albina, Аrt and culture magazine View of the Arts, Great Britain, 15 July 2020
Menininkė A.Albina: atrasti save įkvėpė pelikanai, Daily newspaper Kauno diena, Lithuania, 12 June 2020
Appias Albina. Jungtis tarp stilių ir žemynų. Nemunas Art and culture magazine, Lithuania, October 2017