Aelita Andre: the child prodigy painter from Melbourne, Australia

Someone once told us that ’Believing was Seeing...’ and in this case it could quite literally be very true. Aelita Andre, (born 2007), is an Australian born artist of Russian heritage. She is an internationally recognized artist whose solo exhibition at Agora Gallery, New York, in 2011 sold out in seven days. Created with the joy and free spiritedness of her youth, her expressively colorful abstracts are remarkable evidence of her spontaneous intuitive impulses. Intention and message are at their most abstract in her art.​ The above video is entitled ’Secret Universe’ which represents the world inhabited by children - a world of their own making where fantasy is foremost and reality is distant and secondary. This is a glimpse into what has been adapted into a short film and is told from Aelita’s point of view and includes many spoken observations about herself, her painting and her unique thoughts on life itself. Aelita works in acrylic, with occasional added o