Yana Elkassova’s Russian dolls have gained a lot of attention since we started showing them after spotting her work at the Camberwell College of Art degree show in 2010.
Her latest doll,
Birth of an Icon, is based on the Semyonov factory doll - the design most associated with the traditional Russian Doll - and is Yana’s humorous take on how the iconic image gets dressed, with each piece putting on the next part of the costume.
See the piece in more detail and other work by Yana
here.