Ursula Vargas

About the artist

Ursula Vargas, a recent graduate from University of Brighton, is a Peruvian Fine Arts painter known for her innovative mix media paintings and assemblages. She uses recycled materials in her artwork such as used cardboard, boxes, other recycled materials and detritus.

Vargas has been researching pre-Columbian art and how this historical aspect of her culture can be reflected in her contemporary practice. She is also aware of climate change, natural disasters and its effects on populations since ancient times as well as during her own lifetime. Witnessing how human exploitation of natural resources contributes to environmental problems and climate change has been acknowledged in her choice of traditional painting media, together with geographical imagery and subjects from the area, most especially the motorway as a conduit to her work and a sign both of modernity and personal memories that she has accumulated during road trips from childhood to adulthood.

Her work has has been exhibited in art galleries and shows in South Africa, Peru and multiple locations across England.