Zinta Jaunitis
United Kingdom, visual art
“I am an Australian-born, London-based visual artist of Latvian heritage. Being the daughter of a refugee has profoundly shaped my identity, often placing me between two worlds, cultures, and sensibilities. This duality informs my work, where personal and collective histories converge.
“Since 2020, I have been playing seriously in my East London studio, creating dreamlike open-ended narratives that blur the boundaries between observation and imagination. Drawing and printmaking are central to my practice, using ink, charcoal, and pastel to express movement and mark-making.”
During her time at the Residency, Zinta will develop a series of leporello-format “visual poems,” blending observation and imagination in continuous, unfolding drawings inspired by her wanderings and encounters while in New York.
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Zinta Jaunitis is a London-based producer and visual artist, born in Australia and of Latvian heritage, working across drawing and print. She holds a BA in Graphic Design, an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster, and an MA in Visual Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, London.
Her roots are in heritage, site-specific theatre, and public art - where she has developed artistic collaborations across art forms to create emotive audience experiences in unexpected places. Her visual practice draws from everyday life, literature, and art history, blurring the boundaries between observation and imagination.
Working with responsive materials such as ink, charcoal, and pastel, she explores movement and mark-making. She is particularly drawn to folding formats - such as the leporello - that allow for poetic, dreamlike worlds to unfold through space and time. These folding structures invite narratives to emerge spontaneously, revealing and concealing meaning through association and chance. At the heart of her practice is the dynamic interplay between chance and control. Zinta embraces playful constraints - such as drawing with her non-dominant hand or working upside down - to build layers and invite discovery into her process.
Since 2020, she has been playing seriously in her London studio, exhibiting nationally and internationally. She was selected for the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2023 and 2024, and in 2025 was chosen to be represented by Woolwich Contemporary Editions for her work in original print. Her work is held in the permanent collection at Domaine Mirabeau in the south of France.
