Olesia Bogdanova

I was born in a city which doesn't exist anymore, but many know about it, and in a country that once stretched over 1/6 of our planet. Sounds mystical, but actually it's the USSR and Leningrad which was later renamed to St. Petersburg. So I grew in St. Petersburg, and as many of kids in Russia's Capital of Culture, attended art classes and Children's Art School, where I tried anything from fusain drawings to paintings on wood (and of course I painted matryoska dolls, too!).

I liked art, but at the same time I didn't think I could work in this field because of terribly low income. I needed another path, so I decided to be an environmental engineer, to help save the nature of my country. I studied 5 years, but learned that our environmental supervision is extremely corrupted... and decided to go back to art path, studying and working as a designer! This is a very interesting, but at the same time a nerve-wrecking career: making a large billboard or a logo for a big company is very different from sketching something for your own pleasure.

After working in design for almost 8 years, my husband and I decided to change our quiet life, and moved to Australia. This meant I finally had some time and resources to do what I liked and ch...

2006-2011 Saint Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers
- Environmental Technology

2011-2014 Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
- Graphic Design