Rita Broka ^{Emerging artist}

Artist's country of origin: Latvia

Rita Broka is a visual artist and researcher who works exclusively with organic materials, natural upcycled cloth and locally originated dyestuff. Her practise-based research focuses on diverse and complex cultural discourses with which the chosen medium is interwoven. She is particularly interested in the multisensory perception and representation of landscape, especially in the textile medium, ecological art and culture, the cultural history of plants, identity formation and various forms of relationship to place.

Rita Broka got her Master’s degree from the Faculty of Textile Art in the Department of Visual Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia with her Master’s thesis “The Local Colour” (2017), in which she explored the origin of colour use in Latvian textile culture and based on what the first collection of artefacts dyed with locally sourced pigments was created. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Environmental Art, Department of Design, at the Art Academy of Latvia and is a graduate of the Riga School of Design and Art. She is currently working on her PhD Thesis at the Art Academy of Latvia. The artist regularly organises solo exhibitions and participates in group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad and is an author of numerous publications.