My experience in art and design has led me to value the beauty of simplicity and minimal ways of self expression, where process is as important as the visual side – slow, monotonous, repetitive, meditative and disciplinary. I think and create in bigger systems, where one detail can grow into a larger logic and where repetitive shapes create a binding whole. The process of working with an idea and arriving to a simple, pure and meaningful solution is what I aim for – to see the idea and the final visual result as a whole, with a story to tell.
As an artist I express myself mostly through painting and am drawn to inner landscapes – personal discoveries, journeys, feelings, thoughts and reflections. Through a minimalist geometric visual language I try to express the experiential where the whole process and sense is directed to inner and outer harmony.
Member of Estonian Painters Association since 2023.
Works in collections: Private collections, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art collection
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 (05.–29.03.24) Presence in Motion. ARS Showroom. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Still Beauty. Mall Paris, Sandra Sirp, Andres Koort. Karjamaa Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Gentle Geometry. Sirje Runge / Sandra Sirp. Art and Tonic Gallery. Tartu, Estonia
2021 Practice for Persistence. Karjamaa Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2020 Echoes of Time. Kolga Manor Gallery. Kolga, Harjumaa, Estonia
2020 Trialogue. Anna Kõuhkna, Anu Muiste, Sandra Sirp. Castellan House Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 Roads. Stella Soomlais Studio Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 Traces: Totems of Time. Sandra Sirp & Helen Sirp. Viinistu Art Museum Gallery, Viinistu, Estonia
2018 Traces. Sandra Sirp & Helen Sirp. Tallinn Portrait Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2016 86 Lines. 008 Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (06.03.2024–23.02.2025) Experiments in Concretism. Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Espoo, Finland
2023 Reality and Imagination. Estonian Painters Association annual exhibition. Museum of New Art. Pärnu, Estonia.
Curator Jaan Elken
2023 The Fifth Element. Anna Kõuhkna, Helen Sirp, Anu Muiste, Sandra Sirp. Vaal Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Spring Exhibition. Annual exhibition of the Estonian Artists’ Association. Tallinn Art Hall Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Love Story. Estonian Painters Association annual exhibition. Museum of New Art. Pärnu, Estonia.
Curator Jaan Elken
2021 Tallinn 6th International Drawing Triennial. ARS Project Room. Tallinn, Estonia. Curator Loit Jõekalda
2019 Inversions. Gallery Rivaa. New York City. Curator Melinda Wang
2019 Art Share. Gallery 3,14, Tallinn. Curator Alvar Reisner
2018 Differently. Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia. Curator Margus Meinart
2015 KIMP Fest 2015 Everything is Clay! Tallinn University, Estonia. Curator Jaana Kormashov
2014 A Bow to Spontaneity. EKA G Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. Curator Lembe Ruben
2013 International street art mail art exhibition Papergirl. Tartu City Library, Estonia
2012 SmartAD PopUP. Vana-Lõuna 39A-2, Tallinn, Estonia. Curator Kristel Laur
2012 Culture Festival Kultuuritolm exhibition. Patarei, Tallinn, Estonia. Curator Pire Sova
2011 Exhibition with Krista Simson. Estonian Railway Museum, Varbuse Tea House, Põlvamaa
2011 AHNE 2011. Elevator Building Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Culture festival Kultuuritolm exhibition. Patarei Garage gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. Curator Sandra Sirp
EDUCATION
2019–... Tallinn University, Estonian Academy of Arts, Art Teacher, MA
2017 Estonian Academy of Arts, Media Graphics, BA
2015–2016 University of Porto Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting
2012 Tallinn University, Art Education, BA