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2024
Materials: chunky knitting with macrame cord
2 см x 470 см
Category: textile
Item Number: 020449
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About the Artist

Elena Popova was born in 1978 in Ozersk. Elena studied at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School and then completed an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. She was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2011) and New Sensations (2011) competitions. In 2014 she was nominated for an Arts Foundation Painting Award and selected for Thames&Hudson's new edition of 100 Painters of Tomorrow. In 2016 her work was included in Vitamin P3 (The 108 International Artists Revolutionising Painting Today) published by Phaidon Press.

Elena's work often draws on her Ural childhood and Russian Constructivism to capture the continuous industrial development and landscape of modern capitalism. She grew up in a closed Soviet city, so she is particularly interested in nuclear history and its legacy. Elena is part of the Nuclear Culture Research Group led by Goldsmiths University in London.

In 2011 she became the first and only Russian-born artist to take part in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition. Elena Popova's exhibitions are held in the UK, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Austria, USA and Switzerland. The artist's works are in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, the English Arts Council, the Nottingham Municipal Collection, the New Hall Collection and many others.