Rasma Noreikyté was born and raised in Mazeikiai in northern Lithuania.  She graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts  in 2016 and holds a Masters Degree in the field of Applied Textile Art. She works with embroidery, painting and photography but her main focus is grounded in weaving, particularly hand weaving. She uses weaving as a tool of displaying personal stories of ordinary people and as a way of perpetuating knowledge that is recorded but unnoticed in weaving notation.  In 2015, 2008, 2006, 2005 she received a grant from the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania. She has been participating in international exhibitions in England, Canada, France, Italy, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Argentina. Currently, she lives and works in Kaunas.

 

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