I am a researcher, artist, and poet,
working , at the intersection of artist books, contemporary poetic practice, cognitive pragmatics and Relevance Theory, playing with and around language through drawing, (type)writing, publishing, performing, and academic research, nebulous worlds at the periphery of linguistic experience.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, I am based in London, finishing an interdisciplinary PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art with UCL Linguistics, London.

My creative practice contemplates the ideas of authenticity, continuity, and the notion of otherness though visual and textual writing. My most recent body of work is inspired by the patterns of her family’s heirloom textiles, woven in a small village in south Lithuania. Composed on a typewriter, my prints, visual poetry and artist books illuminate the twilight space between innovation and tradition, authenticity and copy, home and other.   I use typewriting as a metaphor for weaving, and weaving as a metaphor for writing and speaking. Navigating between mythopoetics of today and the past, between the English and the Lithuanian, between text and textile, my artist books** and prints abide on etherial Japanese papers between existence, illusion and unbeing.

My practice is informed by my research*** and interests in linguistics, with a particular focus on cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory. My theoretical research examines non-propositional effects and the role of ostensive acts in literary and visual arts. My paper "On Decoy Artist Books: Do Judge the Book by its Cover" is due to be published in Artist Books Year Book 2026/27 (University of West England, Bristol) in spring 2026.

I am currently a PhD candidate*** at the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Linguistics, working on interdisciplinary research, using Relevance Theory to address the role of metaphor and non-propositional effects in the interpretation of the artists books.

My work is held at V&A Museum, Museum Meermanno (Amsterdam, Holland), Centre international de poesie (Marseille, France), National Museum of Wales, Museum of Fine Art (Boston, USA), University of California (San Diego, USA), Baltimore Museum of Art, Camberwell College of Art Design, Chelsea College of Art, Center for Fine Print Research, (UWE, Bristol), Tate Special Collection, British Library's Collection of Artist's Books, Yale Center for British Art, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munchen), Sheffield Hallam University (Adsetts Centre),University of Southampthon (Hartley Library), Saison Poetry Library, Scottish Poetry Library, University of Cambridge (Department of Philosophy), School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Preusischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag), Maryland Institute College of Art, the Welcome Library, Brotherton Library (University of Leeds), Bibliotheque Kandinsky-Centre Pompidou (Paris),and other public and private collections.

Contact me or Galerie DRUCK & BUCH for currently available works for sale.  

* I was a committee member at British Library’s artists’ books initiative.
** I was co-curator at Artist's Books and Medical Humanities project (led by Dr. Stella Bolaki), University of Kent.
*** From 2018 - PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art + UCL Linguistics, London
**** See my interview with the Warburg Insitute, London