Biography
Born in 1982 in Sydney, Australia.
Valentina Schulte is a Sydney based artist focusing on photography, video and sound experiments and small artist books. Her continuing interest in the arts has led her through the Southern Sydney Art School and later to the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in 2008.
Coming from a fine are and photography background, she explores and makes works on and about the landscape, creating works that are about both the natural and urban environment indiscriminately. Endeavouring to make works that are about acknowledging our place within the landscape, that it is an extension of ourselves and in-turn moulds our own sense of place, rather than creating work about isolation or a kind of emptiness synonymous with vast open landscapes.
In recent creative experiments, Schulte has expanded on these theories by focusing on just the landscape and using the horizon line as an abstract point of reference. Breaking the image down to simple shapes, lines and colours. Sometimes inverting or subverting the image and on occasion combining them with video and soundscapes that are recorded Foley at the location of filming. These elements combined create landscapes that seem alien and unfamiliar but are never too far from home. Activating these scenes with my own interpretation of what the landscape has to offer, whether it is a mountain or a forest.
Schulteʼs work has been shown in various galleries and Artist Run Spaces in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra as well as regional galleries in New South Wales and Victoria. Her first international solo show saw her exhibit works at Galleri Van Bau in Vestfossen Norway in 2007.
Running inline with solo projects Schulte co-founded International Noise a Sydney based artist run initiative where artists strive to take works outside the ‘white cube box’ construct. Exhibitions have included Copy Cats paste-ups at various public locations around Sydney, the 9 x 5″ Mobile Gallery Truck Show and the Uncontainable Project at Sydney Universities Verge Festival in 2011.
