From a school in Vladimir to a studio in Melbourne.
I was born in Kazakhstan in 1985. My family moved to the historic town of Vladimir in the mid-90s, and at ten I enrolled in a Secondary School of Arts — five years of art history, classical painting, drawing and sculpture under Russian masters who treated the work as a craft to be earned, slowly.
I went on to read industrial design at the Stroganov State Academy of Arts in Moscow, where I found my way through graphic design, then industrial design, and finally interior design and architecture. After my Bachelor of Arts, the Academy invited me back as a Professor of Graphics and 3D Design. I taught while I founded Metrica, a small architecture studio working on commercial and residential interiors.
Relocating to Australia rewrote what I was making. The native landscape — light, scale, the silence of it — sent me back to the materials I had only ever played with: copper, glass, botanicals. I have been a full-time artist since 2016, working from a studio in Melbourne, and a committee member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors since 2024.
Three decades, three working languages.
The practice has gathered tools rather than swapped them. Everything I learned in print, paint and glass is still in the studio — it just sits behind the copper now.
Painting & print
where the work began
Linoprint, acrylic and oil, murals at architectural scale. The early years of my practice — and still the daily exercise that keeps the hand honest before any of the slower techniques begin.
Glass
mosaic, stained glass, lampwork, fusing
Glass came in through the architecture studio and stayed. I cut, score and fuse — sometimes for a single panel, sometimes as a small constellation set into a copper plate. The cut edge is a signature I have never wanted to grind away.
Copper & mixed media
the current practice
Oxidised copper, hand-cut glass, ink and pressed Australian botanicals — the four materials the studio runs on now. Each piece is the slow argument between what the landscape gives me and what the materials agree to carry.
I came to Australia and the landscape rewrote what I was making. The work has been finding its way back to nature ever since.
Exhibitions, practice and training.
The full record, kept short. Three views — switch as needed.
Works held in private collections across Australia and the United States.
Selected works available through Saatchi Art and Bluethumb.