b.2003, Russia

Foundational to her practice is collecting objects and materials surrendered by the city and landscape after dark. Fragments of bone, ceramic and driftwood salvaged from the Thames foreshore, remnants shaped by tide, soil, and time. Rooted in animist and earth-centred belief, the practice understands objects and matter as carriers of spirit and memory, alive with what has passed through them. Shaped by Eastern European folklore, where the forest has its own logic. What is encountered there at night is not resolved by morning. Fokicheva's practice is built on the same understanding. The assembled works treat the space they occupy as a portal, steeping the atmosphere with mythic charge. Compositions of collected materials externalise one's interior spiritual terrain. One which most have gradually lost connection to or hesitate to enter. What rises in the viewer was already there.

Graduating from the Royal College of Art MA Painting course in 2026, she lives and works in London.

Education

2025 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London UK

2024 Graduate Diploma, Royal College of Art, London UK

2022 Fashion Foundation, Central Saint Martins, London UK

Group Exhibitions

2026
MA Painting Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
Paper Castles, Strawberry Hill House, London UK
Shifting Realities, Hockney Gallery, London UK
Not The London Art Fair, Candid Arts Trust, London UK

2025
Auto Amor Vol 2, The Art House, London UK
Preludes, hARTslane, London UK

2024
Encore, Greatorex Street, London UK 

Talks

2026
Artist Talk, Royal College of Art, London UK

Work Experience

2023
Studio Intern for Luca Bosani, London UK