Olga Moore (born in 1987, Olga Shamurina) is a visual artist currently based in Trier, Germany. Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, she studied fashion design — including classical painting and drawing. At the same time, obtained the fundamental humanitarian education% Bachelor degreein Philosophy&Political Science and Master’s degree in Scandinavian Studies with a focus on cultural, economical and political history.
After running her own fashion micro-brand in parallel with the main office job, she transitioned into professional fashion illustration in 2019. She has since collaborated with renown international brands including Cartier, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin etc. Her background in fashion illustration continues to influence her painterly style — precise, symbolic, and emotionally resonant.
Olga works in oil and acrylic on canvas. Her debut painting series, Acts of Creation, reflects years of philosophical inquiry into the challenges . Realistic depictions of hands and objects, often placed against abstract or monochromatic backgrounds, lend her work a graphic, almost iconographic vibe. Through her art, she explores the human role and place in rapidly changing contemporary world.
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Artist Statement
I create paintings that explore the human place in the world through a deeply personal and symbolic lens. As a visual thinker with a vivid imagination, I’m drawn to the human body as both a physical and cultural marker of identity. In my debut series, Acts of Creation, I focus on hands — the first part of the body we learn to recognize as children, and also among the earliest motifs in human art, traced onto cave walls as signs of awareness and being.
My influences range from the multidisciplinary vision of Leonardo da Vinci — whose merging of science, art, and philosophy mirrors my own path — to the dramatic light of Caravaggio, the dream logic of Salvador Dalí, and the graphic elegance of Aubrey Beardsley. I’m also deeply inspired by architecture and history, which is why I chose to live and work in Trier — Germany’s oldest city — where the past is ever-present.
Acts of Creation reflects my interest in humanity’s place in the modern world — particularly in the face of accelerating technology and artificial intelligence. These works reassert the irreplaceable value of human touch, manual labor, and the soulful gesture.
OLGA MOORE
Acts of Creation
Series is in progress
Acts of Creation is the series of oil / oil+acrylic paintings which depicts hands performing some kind of action. The meaning is profound and multifaceted. Handprints traced on cave walls are among the oldest known drawings, when people started to explore their physical boundaries and the beginning of cognition. Today, we are entering a new era of artificial intelligence, in which humanity must once again understand and redefine its place in the world, like it was many centuries ago. We have begun to believe that human beings and their manual labor can be fully replaced by machines, and society is now facing the question of self-identification: who am I in this world, and what is my value?
In the Acts of Creation series, I explore the irreplaceability of humans by robots, highlighting the forgotten value of manual labor — which is becoming both a new luxury and a symbol of soulful, timeless values. I also reflect on the “quintessence of action”: even in the world of high technology and immaterial, intellectual labor, there is always a hand that presses the button.
