Mezzanine Gallery | Fort Dunree | 5th -23rd September 2026
In the Mezzanine Gallery, Yulia Gasio presented a series of intimate gouache paintings and other artworks created during her residency at Artlink. Originally from Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and now based in California, Yulia reflects on Inishowen’s landscape through the lens of her own experience of displacement, contested borders and cultural memory. An Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach, and a PhD candidate at UCLA, her work is held in public and private collections internationally.
Speaking ahead of her new exhibition, Yulia said: “Created during my residency at Artlink, this series of gouache paintings considers landscape as a living archive of colonial history, displacement, and cultural memory.
“As a Ukrainian artist from Luhansk, I approached this landscape through my own experience of a homeland shaped by contested borders, occupation, and changing ideas of belonging. The intimacy of these works reflects a process of looking closely and learning from a place. The paintings enter into conversation with the landscape where ocean, defence, migration, and memory converge. Across Donegal, Ukraine, and San Pedro (California), land and water become witnesses to histories of power, loss, survival, and transformation.”
