ABOUT
Signe Elīza Pook (b.1992, Bauska, Latvia) is a visual artist interested in Installation, Printmaking and Drawing.
Her practice is kaleidoscopic, almost semiotic and rooted in observations driven by an ongoing investigation into the relationships between surface and space. She is drawn to qualities of opacity, abstraction in the graphic, the vernacular and shifting façades that in her practice are utilised to playfully test placement, boundaries, perception and proximity to the original, functional or known as it slips, folds, stretches, diffuses or loses its likeness through active process of multi-disciplinary making and thinking.
Working primarily with paper and everyday materials, often sourced from art, education, and bureaucratic contexts, Signe creates diagrammatic, investigatory and occasionally diaristic assemblages as well as site-responsive installations. Her work is guided by the curiosity to capture the essence of something inherently elusive, oscillating between the mundane and the imaginative, the playful and the structural, the profound and the trivial, the static and the fleeting, fluctuating between past and present.
Her fascination with paper lies in its versatility and ubiquity as well as its tactile familiarity. She is particularly interested in its material characteristics of dryness and temporality, which allow her to trace connections across a wide range of ideas and systems. In making, she moves fluidly between precision and chance, materialising these intersections through bold, graphic and layered forms that echo visual rhythms and compositions both, playful and opaque.
Over the last few years, Signe has exhibited work widely, including at venues like Hidden Wardrobe (2023) in Southampton, Slade School of Fine Art, Small Time Projects, ASC Gallery and Sarabande Foundation (2024), MK Fringe Festival(2025)and European Parliament Liasson Office in UK as part of Kollektiv Collective exhibition “Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders”(2025).
Signe is a graduate of University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art (2022) and UCL, Slade School of Fine Art (2024), where she studied under scholarship of Wolfgang Spoerl.
Signe works between Hampshire area and London, UK.
Signe Elīza Pook (b.1992, Bauska, Latvia) is a visual artist interested in Installation, Printmaking and Drawing.
Her practice is kaleidoscopic, almost semiotic and rooted in observations driven by an ongoing investigation into the relationships between surface and space. She is drawn to qualities of opacity, abstraction in the graphic, the vernacular and shifting façades that in her practice are utilised to playfully test placement, boundaries, perception and proximity to the original, functional or known as it slips, folds, stretches, diffuses or loses its likeness through active process of multi-disciplinary making and thinking.
Working primarily with paper and everyday materials, often sourced from art, education, and bureaucratic contexts, Signe creates diagrammatic, investigatory and occasionally diaristic assemblages as well as site-responsive installations. Her work is guided by the curiosity to capture the essence of something inherently elusive, oscillating between the mundane and the imaginative, the playful and the structural, the profound and the trivial, the static and the fleeting, fluctuating between past and present.
Her fascination with paper lies in its versatility and ubiquity as well as its tactile familiarity. She is particularly interested in its material characteristics of dryness and temporality, which allow her to trace connections across a wide range of ideas and systems. In making, she moves fluidly between precision and chance, materialising these intersections through bold, graphic and layered forms that echo visual rhythms and compositions both, playful and opaque.
Over the last few years, Signe has exhibited work widely, including at venues like Hidden Wardrobe (2023) in Southampton, Slade School of Fine Art, Small Time Projects, ASC Gallery and Sarabande Foundation (2024), MK Fringe Festival(2025)and European Parliament Liasson Office in UK as part of Kollektiv Collective exhibition “Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders”(2025).
Signe is a graduate of University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art (2022) and UCL, Slade School of Fine Art (2024), where she studied under scholarship of Wolfgang Spoerl.
Signe works between Hampshire area and London, UK.