Path and Inspiration
Olga Siruk (b.1990, Russia) is a London-based ceramic artist exploring cultural heritage through contemporary form. Trained in architecture and design, she creates hand-built stoneware sculptures merging bodily, archaic shapes with intricate paper-resist decoration. A finalist of CERCO and participant of the British Ceramics Biennial, she exhibits internationally. Working from Redlees Studios, she balances simple forms with layered, symbolic ornament.
Process and Practice
My practice explores the tension between memory and transformation. As a Russian-born artist living in London, I reinterpret folk ornament and cultural heritage through contemporary ceramic forms. Using the paper resist technique, I create graphic, layered surfaces on simple, hand-built shapes. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde and Ballets Russes, I investigate how tradition, once rooted in ritual and myth, can evolve into a new visual language that reflects displacement, identity, and renewal
