Anastasia Tribambuka

Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) is a London based multidisciplinary artist, award-winning illustrator and animation director working predominantly in painting and printmaking. Her practice is concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home and belonging. As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist thought and mythological thinking. Her striking, figurative visual language is an amalgamation of the artistic elements found in Russian Avant-garde, French Analytical Cubism and Fauvism, as well influenced by the revolutionary spirit of swinging sixties.

The artist was formally trained in the traditions of the Russian Analytical school of painting at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, which opposes the canon of academic education and takes its roots from artists like Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Pavel Filonov and Natalia Goncharova. She inherited the structural approach to composition and shapes, reversed perspective and bold colour combinations. The influence of Fauvism, Expressionism and sixties counterculture add an element of disorder, emphasizing the interplay between chaos and structure that is a key theme in...

St.Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design

Solo Shows:
- Right to Rage / OXO Tower, London,2022
- I Am Home / Atelier 3I3, Porto, Portugal, 2019

Selected Group Shows:
- International Women’s Month
Adidas x Creatove Debuts, Cluster, London, UK, 2022
- SHE/HER/HERS
Oakland Gallery, New Brighton, UK, 2022
- Illustrators 62 / Society of Illustrators
Museum of Illustration, New York, USA, 2019
- 100 Minutes of Film and Animation
CityLit Arts, London, UK, 2019
- Nothing Is Square, Cultivate Gallery, London, UK, 2019
- Who Are We
Hackney Wicked Festival, Trampery, London, UK, 2019