In the Studio with Ekaterina Adelskaya
Upcoming Artist in Residence
Bio
Ekaterina Adelskaya (b.1988) is a London-based artist with Russian and Ukrainian roots. Working across sculpture, installation, and video, her practice explores the intersections between memory, materiality, and transformation.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at MOMA Machynlleth (Tabernacle Art Competition, 2024), Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (REA! Art Fair,2022), the London Art Biennale (2021), the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2020), and the Royal West of England Academy (2021), where she received the Watercolour 2nd Prize.
Ekaterina holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art with First Class Honours from the British Higher School of Art and Design & University of Hertfordshire (2019), and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2025), where she was awarded the President and Vice-Chancellor’s UK Cost of Living Scholarship and the Gilbert Bayes Trust Award.
During the residency, Ekaterina will explore the embroidery hoop as a space for redefinition, engaging with an object historically linked to domestic labour and the feminine sphere. Working with second-hand clothing, fabrics, and pigments, she replaces conventional stitching with gestures of burning, piercing, and cutting. These interventions reveal traces of wear and time, extending the language of embroidery beyond its decorative function. The hoop becomes a microcosm — a world suspended within a circle — reflecting cycles of change that unfold across every scale: from the cellular to the cosmic, from the personal to the collective.
Audience members are invited to contribute unwanted garments, which the artist will transform and return within an embroidery hoop, creating a shared cycle of exchange and renewal.