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Valentina Schulte is a Sydney-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a practice focusing on photography, video and sculpture. Her continuing interest in the arts has led her to complete a diploma in Fine Art at St. George TAFE NSW and later to the College of Fine Arts at UNSW where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First-Class Honours in 2009.

Schulte's work focuses primarily on the urban and natural landscapes we inhabit and how these places affect our conscious experience. Recently, research areas have developed to explore the human impact on the lived landscape and the natural environment. Key to this is the idea rooted in principles that apply to us physically as well as philosophically; with the physicality, installation and making methods of my work sharing equal importance to the overall presentation as the ideas and research that drive it. Some of these concepts explored include; circadian rhythms, geometric patterns, beauty in small details, terraforming, positive and negative space and the bending of nature to our will.

Schulte's work shown work around Australia in galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces such as Firstdraft, 107 Projects and Huw Davies Gallery. As well as international group and solo shows in the USA, Norway, United Kingdom and Spain. Most recently, Schulte was awarded overall winner of the 2017 CLIP Award from the Perth Centre for Photography for her work 'Our Silent Guardians', was a finalist in the Ravenswood Women's Art Award (emerging), an exhibitor at the 3rd edition of The Other Art Fair Sydney and finalist in the Fishers Ghost Art Award in both the Photography and Contemporary categories.