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Xenia Busalova Studio

London, United Kingdom

After a decade of the career in corporate finance I got of the path, moved country and started build...

About the artist

Xenia Busalova Studio

Joined In 2023

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About the artist

Xenia Busalova Studio

Joined In 2023

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ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS

After a decade of the career in corporate finance I got of the path, moved country and started building a new career all over again but this time as an artist.
Now I work with porcelain. Porcelain has been regarded as the most prestigious type of ceramics for its delicacy, strength, and the purest of white colour. Porcelain has attitude. The elemental substance of the porcelain is such that there is no waste - everything can be recycled and reused, returned into the making. The environmental aspects are fundamental and remain at the core of my artwork.
There is the concept embedded in a physical material itself- “transience, emotion, moment, memory, trace, passage of time”.

Porcelain offers the ability to capture marks and features. After years of tests and experiments I developed a patentable technique of encapsulating organic material in porcelain.
I collect plants, flowers all over the world, dip them in liquid porcelain and fire in the kiln at 1400 °C. The plant gets caught up in a porcelain and burns out leaving only hollow fossilized shell with all the spikes, leaves, veins. Something that would decay without a trace, turns into a stone instead, becomes a solidified timeless poetry, a little wearable sculpture.
Two years a...

2022 InnovationRCA | Royal College of Art | London | UK

2017 - 2019 MA Contemporary Art Practice | Royal College of Art | London | UK 



2016 - 2017 Graduate Diploma Fine Art | UAL Chelsea College of Arts | London | UK

SELECTED EVENTS and EXHIBITIONS

2021 Karen Tronel Gallery | London | UK

2021 International Collaboration: porcelain jewellery

2020 Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts | London | UK

2020 The Koppel Project Exchange | 193 Piccadilly | London | UK

2019 Assemblage Points | 8th International Biennale of Contemporary Art | Moscow | Russia

2019 Gestura | The Koppel Project Central | London | UK

2019 Le Grand K | Science Museum | London | UK

2019 Le Grand K | Gossamer Fog | London | UK

2019 Brexhibition | Dyson Gallery | London | UK

2019 RAW - Research As Work | Hockney Gallery | London | UK

2018 On being together; memberships, collectives and unions | Beaconsfield Gallery | London

2018 & anOther angle | Maxilla Space | London | UK

2018 Cooked And Raw | Liverpool Independents Biennial | Liverpool | UK

2017 Hot Dairy | Cookhouse Gallery | London | UK

2017 Big Fridge | Safehouse Gallery | London | UK