ARTISTIC STATEMENT

I am a storyteller, and porcelain is my voice.

Each piece I create is entirely handmade — carrying fragments of my own life and the experiences of those I love: friends, family, ancestors, and the stories entrusted to me. When light passes through porcelain, it feels to me like memory becoming visible. The slowness of this process is part of the story itself; each gesture leaves a trace of care, each layer a quiet memory of touch.

Porcelain connects me to both history and the Mother Earth. Its ingredients — kaolin, feldspar, silica — are ancient materials shaped by fire and time. My growing interest in Parian porcelain and early ceramic histories deepens this connection: I see my work as a dialogue with the past, reawakening forgotten material languages through contemporary hands. I often incorporate found and vintage objects into my sculptures — fragments that once lived other lives. In giving them new form, I honor their memory and extend their lifespan, transforming what might be discarded into something luminous.

At the heart of my work is love — love as self-acceptance, as transformation, as the force that unites. I believe that when we truly embrace ourselves, we create peace — within and with one another. The energy we waste on conflict could instead nourish what is fragile and essential: children who grow with awareness, the earth that sustains us, the art that connects us, and the beauty we all share. Unity is the remembrance that we were never truly separate. It is the quiet return to wholeness — within ourselves, with each other, and with something greater than us.

Porcelain — fragile yet resilient, able to hold and filter light — mirrors this transformation. Through its translucency, I shape forms that embody both chaos and renewal: rough textures that speak of hardship, soft curves that whisper of new life, and delicate layers that hold the quiet strength of survival.

Motherhood is the ground of my practice. My daughter was born blind. Through her, I have learned to perceive life beyond sight — to listen more deeply, to feel more fully, and to recognize beauty in the invisible. I homeschool my children because life is fleeting, and I want to savor these years with them — to witness their growth, to learn alongside them, and to cherish the everyday magic of their becoming. They remind me daily that love is not abstract but embodied, transforming struggle into light.

My sculptures are meditations on transformation, love, loss, renewal, and our interdependence with history and nature. They are filled with ancestral echoes and carry within them the stories of both personal and collective memory. Through porcelain — and through the traces of objects once held by other hands — I open portals inviting us to feel more, remember more, and honor what endures beyond the visible.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Arts and Cultural Training and Learning

2000 Master’s Degree in Economics, Ukraine
2001 Master’s Degree in Fashion Design, Ukraine
2002-present Self-directed and mentored training in ceramic sculpture and porcelain work, Toronto, Canada
2019 Professional training with world-renowned artist Sergei Isupov, Cummington, Massachusetts, Project Art01026
2019 Professional training with world-renowned artist Crystal Morey, Cummington, Massachusetts, Project Art01026

Exhibitions:

2025 Craft Ontario Award Recipient Exhibition
2025 Group Exhibition “Remembrance Every Day”, Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo
2025 Group Exhibition “Earth and Fire” Dufferin Museum, Mulmur
2025 Porcelain installation with Choir for Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo
2025 “The Spaces Between” and “Textile Traditions” Exhibits, The Cotton Factory. Hamilton
2024-2014 The Artist Project, Exhibition Place, Toronto
2013-2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2020 "Motherhood Stories During Pandemic" York Region Art Council
2019 Roots Routes, Mental Health Exhibit, Old Town Hall, Newmarket
2017 The Brain Project, Yogen Früz, Baycrest, Toronto
2013 Milton Art Center, "A see-it, feel-it, hear-it" Accessibility for disability, Holcim Gallery.
2013 Nuit Blanche: Doors of Hope, Toronto
2013 Featured Artist & Speaker, Big Art Book, Scarborough Arts Center
2013 Rising Star, One of a Kind Spring Show, Toronto
2012 Rising Star, OOAK Christmas Show, Toronto
2012 Art Tile Show, Silver City, NM
2012 Big Art Book, Scarborough Arts Center
2012 Design Hope Toronto, Art Auction for the Homeless
2011 Little Art Show, Hang Man Gallery. Toronto

Artist talks, presentations and articles

2021 Artist Talk - "Clay Voices" Canadian Clay Art community
2016 Artist Talk -“The Artist Project”, Toronto
2012 Artist Talk - "Big Art Book". Scarborough Arts Center received an artist fee.

Volunteer Experience and Public Programs

2019 Blessed Scalabrini Catholic School – Conducted a 3-day Workshop for students and followed the exhibition “Saint”
2012-2015 Artist in the School Program, Toronto Catholic School Board, resident artist.

Media Coverage and Publications

2024 Featured Artist, York Region Arts Council, received an artist fee
2017 Toronto Star, 100 Brain Sculptures to Descend on Toronto
Read Article
2015 OMNI TV Interview during TOAF
Watch Interview
2013 "500 Paper Objects", Paperclay sculptures, Lark Publishing
2013 BlogTo Featured Artist of TOAF

Awards, Recognition and Grants

2025 Craft Council Ontario, Helen Copeland Memorial Award in Ceramics
2020 Government Grant for the Project "Motherhood Stories during Pandemic"
2017 Yogen Fruz The Brain Project. Baycrest. Toronto
2013 Nuit Blanche Toronto. “Doors of Hope”
Rising Star, “One of a Kind” Art Shows (2012, 2013)

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