Statement

I tell self-contained stories about unequal worlds. Working across traditional and digital painting, I keep returning to moments someone made small by facing something too big to face. A political system, a crowd, a landscape. Sometimes it is another person, sometimes nature itself.

I use magical realism and altered scale to make that imbalance visible and physical. What interests me is the space between power and vulnerability, when the distinction between them begins to blur, and what such encounters do to a person. My works share my fascination with the subtle absurdity of this reality, its hidden magic and latent horrors.

Recent Exhibitions

Beecher’s Gallery 
AUTUMN
United Kingdom, Ross-on-Wye
2026

Candid Gallery
OCFA26
United Kingdom, London§
2026

Gallery North
FLOCK
United Kingdom, Hailsham
2026

Fuck Work Gallery
Russia, Moscow
2026

CICA Museum
Breath
South Korea, Gimpo-si
2026

POSK Centre
Gardens Of Life
UK, London
2025

Education

Higher School Of Economics, Design and Media BFA
Russia, Moscow
2019

School Of Visual Arts,
Computer Arts MFA
US, New York
2021

Kingston University,
Filmmaking MA
UK, London
2025
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2026