I work across sculpture, installation and video, exploring the intersections between memory, materiality, and transformative processes.
Here, tensions between fragility and solidity, stability and volatility manifest a beauty, found in order and chaotic decay. Rooted in my working-class upbringing and witnessing the collapse of the USSR and the subsequent unpredictability during the 1990s, my work reflects the metamorphoses born from instability; the ephemerality of life embodied through impermanent materials.
Fire, heat, and cooking methods are my primary alchemical techniques. I push the physical limits of my materials, ranging from metals and biomaterials to cardboard, pigments, and found objects. Through melting, oxidising, and piercing, I preserve the traces of these interventions. Rather than erasing a material’s past, I allow its scars and wear - imprints of time - to remain partially visible.
Throughout the transformation process, one of disassembling and reassembling, layered narratives take shape. They evolve into ‘palimpsests,’ where personal memories and associations are inscribed on the remnants of old and forgotten objects. In my current research I examine potatoes as perishable roots that mutate and resist stasis. Potatoes recall home, home becomes laboratory, metal flexes strength.
Empowering viewers to fathom both what is seen and what remains hidden, I offer the chance to reflect on the imperfections and fragility of life. Through hybridity and ambiguity, my work invites multiple interpretations, all centered around the notion that the transformation of matter is an integral part of our existence; it is life itself. We constantly adapt, thrive, and decay in a continuous flow of change.
EDUCATION
2024-2025 Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture
2023-2024 Royal College of Art, Graduate Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction)
2016-2019 University of Hertfordshire & BHSAD, BA in Fine Art (First Class Honours)
2007-2012 All-Russian State University of Cinematography, Specialist in Film Production
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 RCA Degree Show, Arts & Humanities - MA Sculpture, London, UK
2024 Tabernacle Art Competition: On a Windy Day, MOMA Machynlleth, UK
2023 The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, UK
2023 Across Over, RCA & HSBC, HSBC headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, UK
2023 BSA 118th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
2022 Muddy Mudlarks, Candid Arts & Thames Festival Trust, London, UK
2022 Summer Exhibition 2022, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster, UK
2022 Fragments of intimacy, Glavnyy Prospekt Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2021 London Art Biennale, The Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2021 Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2020 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2020 Perspectives 2020, CICA Museum, Samdo-ro, South Korea
2019 Soup, Centre ZIL, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2019 Essence, Duo Exhibition, IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Where Do The Vines Lead?, Centre Rama, Sevastopol, Crimea
2018 Symbiosis, Espacio gallery, London, UK
2016 Site Responsive Works, Artplay Design Centre, Moscow, Russia
2015 Space, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russia
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2025 Gilbert Bayes Award (RCA MA Sculpture & Gilbert Bayes Trust), London
2024-2025 The President and Vice-Chancellor’s UK Cost of Living Scholarship, RCA, London
2021 Sculpture Semi-Finalist of "Artist of the Year" Competition, King House Gallery & The Artist Lounge, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK
2020 Watercolour 2nd Prize Of The 168 Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2019 Urban Landscape Award, IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 Portfolio Competition Award, INTO scholarship, UK & Russia
AUCTIONS & ART-FAIRS
2022 REA! Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
2022 Artists on the Rise: Contemporary Investment Art, Chalkwell Auctions, Essex, UK
2021 Artists on the Rise, Chalkwell Auctions, Essex, UK
2020 Life on Venus, The Auction Collective & The Tub Hackney, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
2022 See-through, Private Collection, Oxford, UK
2022 Study 1, 11, 13 of Letting Go, Private Collections, London, UK
2021 Letting Go III, Letting Go V, Letting Go XV , Private Collections, London, UK
2020 Blurring, CICA Museum, Samdo-ro, South Korea
2020 Essence VI, Private Collection, Padua, Italy
2019 Wine Body, UPPA Winery, Rodnoye village, Sevastopol, Crimea
2018 Heavy Breathing, Private Collection, London, UK