BA Fine Arts, Nottingham Trent University, 2026
2026 Emerging Art Prize Nominee.
Using disabled embodiment as both subject and method, I aim to transform the physical limits of my body into a critical and generative artistic language. Originally from Ukraine, based in Nottingham, trained in academic painting and shaped by Odesa's conceptualism. My practice operates between ironic exaggeration and a deliberate refusal of productivity. Through recurring motifs of grids, lace structures, body fragments, wheelchair elements, and reflective surfaces, I interrogate systems of visibility, classification, and desire. My practice challenges the assumption that disability is a limitation, instead proposing it as a critical lens through which to rethink representation, intimacy, and power.
