Irina Tall Novikova

[Media description] A collage of paper, thread, and ink with dominant colours of black, white, grey, and red. Magazine clippings create a feminine face with hands below, scattering red berries to feathered wings.[End media description]

I’ll scatter the red berries, let them be like the feathers of a cardinal 

Materials: collage, thread, ink, paper

Size: 40x30 cm 

Year: 2023

[Media description] A collage of paper, thread, and ink with dominant colours of white, sky blue, and dark blue. Magazine clippings show faces in profile and in parts peeking out from behind fabric and paper. Human faces drawn on fish bodies swim in schools at the top and bottom of the collage.[End media description]

Don't forget me... 

Materials: collage, thread, fabric, ink, paper 

Size: 40x30 cm

Year: 2023

[Media description] A collage of paper, gel pen, and ink with dominant colours of red, gold, white, and black. Sketched feathers overlapping and a silhouette of a bird cut from glittering paper cover most of the red background.[End media description]

white bird in hellish darkness

Materials: collage, ink, gel pen, paper

Size: 40x30 cm

Year: 2023

Irina Tall Novikova is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.

The first personal exhibition "My soul is like a wild hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man - a bird - Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection "The 50 Best Short Stories", and her poem was published in the collection of poetry "The wonders of winter".

You can find her on instagram @irina369tall and @irinanov4155.