Irina Makarova

Irina Makarova is an artist based in London, UK.

She mostly creates expressive figurative art. The form and relationships between different forms and figures set a huge field of interpretation through different historical and mythological contexts. Irene's paintings are born in her inner world through observation and experience of the surrounding life.

Irina's art was influenced by the pictorial language of the medieval miniatures, Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century and the work of German expressionists, as well as by Bosch, Giotto, El Greco, and Modigliani.

Irina has participated in many exhibitions, her works are in private collections in England, Scotland, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, Switzerland, Portugal, the Czech Republic and the USA.

– Contemporary art course (HSE University, Russia)
– Painting and drawing course (Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov, Russia)
– MARKHI (State Academy of Architecture), Design of Architectural Environment (Moscow, Russia)
– Studied painting at the Studio of the Russian artist Konstantin Kaufman

2025 - 'EIDOS-the form of those with no form', Indra Gallery, London, UK
2024 - ‘Autumn Exhibition’, Tower Gallery, London, UK
2024 - 'Summer Show', Shtager & Shch Gallery, London, UK
2024 - 'Fallacious Memory’, Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath, UK
2023 – 'ThreadED’, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath, UK
2022 – 'WOW' curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk, ZDES na Taganke Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 – 'Shooting Stars', ZDES na Taganke Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 – 'Looking after the Earthlings' curated by Andrey Bartenev, ZDES na Taganke Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 - 'Sky Labyrinths', Rene Capitant exhibition hall, Paris, France
2019 - 'A Lot of Sun in the Moon Space', Luna Art Gallery, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
2018 - 'Celestial Forest', Exhibition Cultural Space Bertin Poiree, Paris, France
2018 - 'Sub specie aeternitatis', Mairie du 5eme, Paris, France
2017 - 'Shades of Wonderful', Cambrils, Spain
2017 - ТМ-Studia Art Project - 'Russia-France. On the Roads of Miracle', Mairie du 5eme, Paris, France
2016 - ART-Russia, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
2016 - TM-Studia Art Unity Exhibition in Sorrento, Italy
2015 - TM-Studia Art Exhibition in «Galeria, 15» Gallery, Paris, France
2013 - Exhibition in AVA-Gallery, Helsinki, Finland