Olga Siruk is a London-based ceramic artist whose work explores the transformation of cultural heritage through contemporary form. She studied architecture and interior design and spent over a decade working in the field before turning fully to ceramics.

Her practice focuses on hand-built stoneware sculptures, where simple, archaic forms are combined with layered paper-resist surface patterns, exploring the relationship between form, ornament, and cultural memory.

Siruk’s recent recognitions include the Ceramic Art London Newcomer Award 2026 and selection for Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists 2026, where her work was featured on the magazine cover. She has exhibited in the UK, including at the British Ceramics Biennial (Fresh), and internationally as a finalist of the CERCO International Ceramic Prize in Spain (2025).

In her work, Olga Siruk explores the complex relationship between Russian identity and cultural heritage in the 21st century. As a recent immigrant, she reinterprets traditional folk motifs as both personal symbols and politically charged forms. Her practice is rooted in the tension between a rich cultural past and the realities of the present, shaped by displacement, memory, and social change.

Her current research draws on Russian avant-garde and folk traditions, informing hand-built ceramic forms with layered paper-resist surface patterns. Through this process, she explores how simple, archaic shapes can become carriers of complex visual and symbolic narratives.

Her work is further informed by research into stage designs for the Ballets Russes under Diaghilev. Their blend of modernism and folklore resonates with her own experience of growing up surrounded by fairy tales, rituals, and mythological imagery.

Siruk’s ceramics reflect an ongoing dialogue between tradition and transformation, where ornament becomes a space to rethink identity in a contemporary context.