Born in 1994 in the Ural village of Yakshina. Since 2000 she has been living in the city of Nizhny Tagil. In 2016, she graduated from the Nizhny Tagil Social Pedagogical Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Faculty of Art Education. From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of the Tagil art group Second Hand. She works in various media from painting, graphics, textile sculptures to video art, animation and digital collages. In addition, she works with materials such as metal, wood, ceramics and constantly experiment with new ones.

Tell us about you as an artist.

I have always felt like an artist since childhood, because I, like many other children, have always been drawn to draw, sculpt from plasticine, and make something.  I was born in a small village and drawing was kind of fun for me.  I paint my self-portraits very often, I have a small archive of my childhood works, and they often serve as inspiration for me.  Especially self-portraits.  For example, there is one on which I cry, it is very interesting why I decided to draw myself crying in early childhood. So I always drew, I went to art school when I was a teenager, then after graduation, I went to art school because it seemed logical to me.
Of course, at that time, I knew little about the world of art and perhaps did not understand what it meant to be an artist by profession, I just liked to draw and create something, and I intuitively followed the call of my heart. When I was studying at the institute, my friends and I founded an art group, we wanted to develop art in our city (Nizhny Tagil).  Later, the group broke up and I continued my solo path, which I still follow. Being an artist is difficult, even very difficult, but I have not regretted my choice for a single day.

Why Do You Make This Type of Art? Why are you drawn to this subject? 

I call myself a multidisciplinary artist because I work with different techniques and materials.  When I studied at the institute, I experimented a lot, I wanted to try new materials, even those that I was not told about at the institute. Experiments led me to textiles, at the moment it is my favorite medium, my favorite but far from the only one.

What Inspires You? What connection do you have to your art? 

Inspiration is a very complex concept, often people think of inspiration as something tangible, when, for example, one artist saw the work of another artist and was inspired to create something of his own.  For me, inspiration is a certain state or a certain impulse that prompts action.  In this case, you can say that life itself is my inspiration.  For example, I arranged my studio apartment in such a way that every corner of it can inspire me.  I love this place and it encourages me to create something new. I also like to be in nature, maybe it’s trite, but when I leave the city I wander through the Ural Mountains and a lot of ideas come to my mind. Sometimes you can be inspired by bad things, as a child I was sick a lot and my illness became part of my art, now this also happens. All my experiences, both good and bad, become the fuel for my work.

How Do You Make It?

The creative process is always different.  Sometimes I embody spontaneous ideas, and sometimes, on the contrary, I think for a long time and develop this or that work.  In the creative process, I give myself complete freedom, I give myself the opportunity to always act according to the situation, and I do not set any boundaries, because I believe that only in this way can something real be born.  Sometimes I work in the studio for days, as if obsessed, and sometimes I create a work in one evening while watching a movie. I am also currently still in the process of growing ambitions, and I constantly want to try something new, complicate my work, think bigger, in general, dive where I have not swum before. For example, once I did an exhibition in a village, where the village itself was an exhibition space.  I arranged the works in the fields, on the river, in abandoned houses.  I really like it, the art is out of the gallery.

What Does Your Art Mean to You