Kadi Kusnets

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Tartu, Estonia

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Soulful patterns, warmth, colours, fairytails, energy and life. For me art is a way of self-expression and also a way of bringing more colours and patterns both to myself and to others.

The biggest artist and inspiration for me has always been nature, in all its balance and beauty. My inspiration comes from nature with all the animals, bugs, birds, plants, trees, air, land and every other living being. I also get postive energy to create from loved ones and feelings.

My works are very soft, filled with love and a wish to help all the living world around me. My earlier works can be at the same time powerful, full of strong emotions and colours. As now my purpouse has naturally shifted to bringing attention and love to the nature and all the living beings around us.

I also have some experience in art therapy.

I create, because it comes from within and if it touches others, brings more love to the world and gives me opportunities to work in the field I love, then it is a very big bonus.

Artwork publications:

Peripheral ARTeries Art Review August 2014, ppp 62-77

http://issuu.com/artpress/docs/peripheral_arteries_art_review_-_au/62
Education
- Hugo Treffner Gymnasium
- Bachelor of Arts B.A paintings department
  
  Tartu Art Collage
  
  2008 - 2012
  
  Tartu Art Collage has given a good fundament for many different painting techniques: watercolor, acrylic and oil painting, secco, fresco, sgraffito, collage, mosaic, stencil, stained glass, different graphics techniques, also wall-paintings and interior design. I have done many wall-paintings as a hackwork and I have been a member of art crews and workshops for different festivals here in Estonia.
Experience
- Administrator-infosecretary
  
  Tartu Art School
  
  Sep 2013 - Present (8 years 1 month)
  
  The administrator-infosecretary job included many different tasks that are all important for the school’s everyday life. The tasks included communication with students, employees, teachers and guests, renting out devices for schoolwork, assisting with different events, dealing with applications and much more. This was a wonderful time, which gave me a positive experience in a friendly, loving and creative environment. It also gave me an opportunity to communicate with different people and to see how a school, especially an art school daily works.
- Wall-paintings for a company Talent Plastics
  
  Tartu Ülenurme (teamwork) A total make-over interior design project for a youth center TANK in Tsirguliina Being a member of one of the teams for the project "Repair in 600 minutes - a total makeover".
- Illustrator for the Metaphore cards "Home Is Where The Heart Is"
  
  Sirli Kivisaar and OÜ Via Naturale.
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Sep 2016 - Apr 2017 (7 months)
  
  © Sirli Kivisaar and OÜ Via Naturale.
  Artists: Kadi Kusnets and Liisi Tani.
  Cards' layout : Kadi Kusnets.
  Published in 2017.
  For anyone who wishes to discover themselves and try out different ways of using the metaphore "home". There are 54 cards with pictures and 4 cards of instructions in the deck (in Estonian and in English).
- Assistant
  
  Tartu Young Art Auction /The auction of works by young artists in Tartu
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
  
  Registering the artists and their applied works for the auction, making the transcript and summary of the chosen works, communicating with the artists and sending them notifications about the results of the committee's meeting (whose works were chosen, whose were not, giving further information about the results if needed), collecting the applied works for the auction, making charts of the results, chosen works and artists, communicating with the artists and with the organisers of the auction sale, returning the works that were not chosen, inserting the information and photos of all the works and artists that were chosen for the auction into the Internet-auction-system, helping out with the auction's exhibition.
- Assistant
  
  Tartu Young Art Auction /The auction of works by young artists in Tartu
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Apr 2014 - May 2014 (1 month)
  
  Collecting the information and files of the chosen works for the auction from the organisers and the photographer; downloading, organizing and uploading the information, photographs and video-links of the works into the auction Internet systems, organizing the transport of the works to the auction hall and back, informing art students about the auction, making changes in the auction's informational charts, keeping eye on the processe, packaging the works, helping out on the auction.
  
  All in all it has been a really good experience! To see how does it actually work to make a big auction sale happen in the art world. What little and bigger things need to be done in order to keep everything running smoothly. I am thankful for the experience!
- Member of a charity organisation
  
  MTÜ AUH
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  2010 - 2013 (3 years)
  
  Animal Welfare
  
  I was part of the team 2010-2013.
  Projects involving animal welfare, being part of charity events, visiting animal shelters in Estonia.
  I have gone to help out in the animal shelter in Tartu, Estonia, also after that period of time. Although I am not part of this team now, I still care about these animals and about nature and all living beings.
- Stencil wall-painting
  
  Lokaal Sumin
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
  
  Being a part of the team: sketching, styling and painting the final work.
- Total make-over project
  
  Tõlliste Avatud Noortekeskus TANK
  
  Tsirguliina, Estonia
  
  Dec 2010 - Dec 2010
  
  Being a member of one of the teams for the project "Repair in 600 minutes - a total makeover". Giving a short lecture about colours and composition to the daily visitors of the youth center, giving out ideas for the new look for the kitchen (my part of the project), discussing everything with the people in my team, making lists of the necessary items, sketching, shopping, painting, styling and finishing the over-all look for the room and the accessories (carpets, tabels, frames, pictures etc). My work was to lead and hold the ideas and their compatibility together, but the overall look was a teamwork.
- Wall-paintings
  
  Women's department in Maarjamõisa hospital
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Sep 2010 - Oct 2010 (1 month)
  
  Being part of the team: sketching and suggesting different ideas for the client (two of my sketches were chosen), painting the wall-paintings for two rooms with the help of my coursemates. Intense, but at the same time, very interesting work.
- Wall-paintings
  
  Talent Plastics
  
  Ülenurme, Estonia
  
  Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
  
  Being a member of the team: sketching and giving out ideas for the client (one of my ideas for the wall-painting was chosen and painted). We painted wall-paintings for 5 different rooms as a teamwork. Quite intensive, but at the same time an interesting work for about two weeks in a row.
- Instructor in a creativity tent
  
  Tartu Hansapäevad
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
  
  Beinga a member of the creativity team in an annual festival 'Hansapäevad' in Tartu: making a list of the important activities and necessary items for the work and the tent, preparing three big paintings in a week before the festival, instructing people for three days in the festival with the paintings (it was a collective-painting with the citizens and festival visitors who were interested to team up), finally primping the paintings for the next step, for the photographs for the postcards illustrating the festival. The preparatory and instructional tasks were a teamwork with two wonderful artists from Tartu.
- Member of a decorating team
  
  Valge Daami Päevad
  
  Lannuste, Estonia
  
  Aug 2009 - Aug 2009
  
  Being a member of a decorational-styling team in an annual festival in Haapsalu: preparing, making and painting decorations in a week before the formal festival.
- Workshop in a creativity tent
  
  Tartu Hansapäevad
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  Jul 2009 - Jul 2009
  
  Being a teacher for three days in a workshop at a big annual festival in Tartu: teaching children how to make decorations and pictures using stencil print.
- Wall-paintings
  
  Raadio Elmar
  
  Tartu, Estonia
  
  May 2008 - May 2008
  
  Being a member of a team for a week: sketching and painting the final work.
Skills
- Illustration
- Photoshop
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Wall-paintings and interior design

Wall-paintings and interior design from Kadi Kusnets

Wall-paintings and interior design

Wall-paintings and interior desing

Wall-paintings for the Women’s department in Maarjamõisa hospital in Tartu, Estonia - Pigments and acrylics. Measurements of the wall: 260 x 420 cm (the tiled part included) / December 2010

A total makover in 600 minutes - before and after.
Wall-paintings and interior design for a kitchen in the youth center TANK in Tsirguliina, Estonia - Wall paints.
Measurments of the walls: front and back 380 x 260 cm, sides 380 x 520 cm
/ October 2009

Wall-paintings for the Talent Plastics Company in Ülenurme, Estonia - Acrylics. Measurements of the walls: 260 x 420 cm / August 2010

Wall-paintings for the Talent Plastics Company in Ülenurme, Estonia - Acrylics.
Measurements of the walls: 260 x 420 cm
Close-up of a wall
/ August 2010

Wall-paintings for the Women’s department in Maarjamõisa hospital in Tartu, Estonia - Pigments and acrylics. Measurements of the wall: 260 x 420 cm (the tiled part included) / December 2010

There Is Something About The Night.. - Maquette
70 x 70 cm
/ December 2010

Cherry-blossoms - Acrylics
Wall-painting in the hallway of a department in Tartu, Estonia.
Measurements of the wall 135 x 350 cm (painting covers about 3/4 of the wall)
/ February 2014

Paintings for a cupboard - Acrylics.
Measurements of the cupboard: 100 x 50 x 54 cm
/May 2015

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