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Hi! I am Gudrita Lape. I work as interdisciplinary artist, mostly in the field of performance, installation and mixed textiles.

My background

I am mostly known by my artist name Gudrita Lape, but I was born as Gintaré Maciulskyté in 1990, Lithuania. From the age of 10 Iceland became my homebase. I have been interested in art since early childhood and planned on studying it from the age of 12. In 2012 I graduated from Iceland Art Academy with a BA degree in Fine Arts. Before that, during one of my family visits to Lithuania a friend showed me the textile department in the Vilnius Art Academy and half a year later I applied to go as exchange student there January-June 2011. That is where I met textile artist, former head of textile department and then vice-dean, Egle Ganda Bogdaniene. We were interestes in many similar issues and right after my graduation I got a a scholarship for Leonardo da Vinci internship to work as her assistant for 16 weeks. That is where I learned some basic textile skills and kept experimenting on my own through installations and performances. The choices I make in art have been widely influenced by my migration and epilepsy diagnosis back in 2012, which is when I needed a lot of energy to do anything creative due to medicine side effects. In 2019 after lowering the medicine my memories of textile endeavours started coming back and in 2020 I started making bespoke headdresses under the name Skar-e-Lei.

Previous work

Photos from the interview with Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið on Skar-e-Lei project Photo from the interview with Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið on Skar-e-Lei project Photo from the interview with Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið on Skar-e-Lei project

Staðbundin Þekking (Local Knowledge), 2020 Staðbundin Þekking (Local Knowledge), 2020

Alternative Ways 5h performance at CAC in Vilnius with a handmade umbrella tent Alternative Ways performance at CAC in Vilnius

Wool feti in making for E.G. Bogdaniene Wool feti in making for E.G. Bogdaniene

Inspirations

Alighiero Boetti Egle Ganda Bogdaniene Senga Nengudi


Last update: January 8, 2021