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Varvara Keidan Shavrova is a visual artist, writer, curator, educator and researcher currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art's School of Arts & Humanities (2021-2025), funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) through the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Born in the USSR, she moved to London in the early 1990s and has since maintained a dynamic international practice with periods spent living in China, Ireland and Germany.
- PhD Candidate, Royal College of Art (2021-2025)
- MFA Fine Art (with Merit), Goldsmiths, University of London (2019)
- LAHP-funded research placement at Flight galleries, Science Museum London (2023-24)
Keidan Shavrova's research practice centers on feminist perspectives on gendered labor and flight technologies within the capitalist Anthropocene. Her work explores flight as both physical movement and metaphorical escape, reimagining emancipating modes of flight through poetic technologies and collaborative feminist textile practices. She critically examines the relationship between private and public conceptualizations of flight, connecting personal histories with broader geopolitical contexts.
Her scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on migration, feminist theory, textile installations, and political resistance through art. Analyzing her recent publications and exhibitions shows a trajectory moving from site-specific installations toward more explicitly political and feminist frameworks addressing contemporary crises including migration, climate change, and geopolitical conflict. Her work increasingly integrates textile-based methodologies as both material practice and theoretical framework for reimagining technological futures.
- LAHP (Arts & Humanities Research Council) studentship
- Bank of Ireland 'Begin Together' Business to Arts Award (2023)
- Culture Ireland Award (2022)
- Bursary Award from Arts Council Ireland (2021)
- National Lottery Project Award from Arts Council England (2020-21)
As an educator, Keidan Shavrova has served as Visiting Tutor at Heatherley's School of Fine Art (2018-2023) and Visiting Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University (2022). Her community engagement includes significant work with refugee communities, notably 'InFlight-OnLanding' masterclasses with Ukrainian refugee women in Ireland (2023) and 'InFlight' workshops with migrant and refugee women groups in the UK (2022), demonstrating her commitment to art as social practice and community building. Her curatorial practice spans international venues including the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, and Photo Museum Ireland.
