Mila Dolman

Russian artist braised in London. Aqsaqal of the Royal College of Art, performer, sculptor. My main

06/01/2022

❤️🇰🇿 My heart with Kazakhstan now 🇰🇿❤️ And I am very scared for Kazakhstan. The protests are becoming more and more frightening.

I was in Alma-Ata only once - I instal my 7-meter horse on the Republic Square directly opposite the Monument of Independence - the Golden Man. This monument to the Saki warrior from Bronze Age is a symbol of Nazarbayev's power. We decided to put right opposite, across the road, a monumental counterweight - a blue horse. My symbol of freedom, mountains, sky and wind.

We spent an unforgettable week at some distant metal workshop, where we were building thus horse sculpture. We communicated mainly with welders and crane operators, and in the evening they took us to yummy restaurants. Although I did not have time to go to the mountains, to Medeo and even go to the museum, I really liked my time in this amazing city. Alma-Ata has super energy and incredible people live there. I was covered with a cap of the aura of the magnificent Igor Sludsky. His team was a real dream team, which could easily move mountains and turn rivers.

I honestly don't understand why many of my friends are so happy about the protests in Kazakhstan. Rebellion is always sad, innocent people could die, someone will be robbed ... despotism is also bad, but war and disorder is not a good way out of a situation that can be shaken and rolled back... I am very scared for my friends there, take care of yourself, please. And let all bad things end ASAP! 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Horse Power. Republic Square, Kazakhstan, 2015. Concrete, metal. 320х150х640

10/12/2021

👹🧝‍♀️Wild and breathtaking my homeland. Next week I am going to Russia 🇷🇺, the place where I was born, where I learned a lot, where I have not been for almost a year. It is very exciting. I love my roots, I want to meet my old works and friends. I really want to ride a horse and hunt.

Brick horse. 2015. Bricks, fibreglass composite, light diodes 110х50х180

02/12/2021

I’m happy to launch ‘Modelling Memories’ my new collaboration with We’ve gather to organise a series of workshops that explore the extinction of semiotics through clay.

23/11/2021

💃🏼 Who is this crazy Russian girl 🤪🎨✌🏼❓

A lot of new people have appeared on my Insta. I'm glad to see you friends! I will remind you who I am and why I live on this planet.

📍I was born in Russia 🇷🇺. I have a complex ethnic and multi-religious background. I feel like a citizen of the world 🌍. I am an exquisite nomad.

📍I create my own worlds, I inhabit them with magical characters from the past 🐉 . Sometimes I'm scared there, sometimes it's fun. I'm a storyteller.

📍I am an artist and graduated from the Sculpture department of the . I stayed in London and I am building my own museum in the Chelsea area .

📍I work with ceramics, bronze, textiles, but media is not that important. The main topic for me is the preservation of the world cultural heritage using my artistic 👩‍🎨 skills. I am fighting for the survival of historical monuments. I run my project 🗿

I try to travel a lot and I have 3 kids 🧒🏼👧🏼👶. My dream is to go to Iraq 🇮🇶, as my dissertation topic is related to the Mesopotamian civilization.

Welcome to my world! 🤩💛🧡❤️

16/11/2021

Sometimes I really want to be stolen by a 🐉 dragon. As it happens in old legends. And he doesn't necessarily eat me. We could have a wonderful time. The dragon will fry meat 🥩 and pour wine 🍷, and I will do his portraits. Actually, I've already started.

Beast head, detail of a ceramic relief Exitium, .

Medium: Ceramics, pigments, glaze, plywood boards
Size: H3.00 x W3.16 x D8

03/11/2021

Life without him 😞🧑🏻‍🎤🖤🧔🏼

It's very difficult for me to live through my daddy’s death. We can’t outlive the Death. It is near by me, but he is not. I try to talk to my daddy in my head, but so far I can't. I want to see him in a dream, but he doesn't come.

More than anything, I want to work now. When I was a little girl, I could paint 7 hours a day. My dad even scolded me for not going out and taking a rest. But I'm sure he was glad of my passion. We went to the museum together and leafed through art albums. Time passed slowly and it was very nice and calm.

Now everything is different, I am happy if I manage to work 3-4 hours, the rest of the time I spend on repairs in my house-museum Casa Míla. Most of all, I want to be able to work longer and to have my daddy around. 😞

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Photo .ermolenko_photo

23/10/2021

My dady passed away. A new life began without him. He was the closest person to me and I am very lost.

He was my first art critic. The strictest and most loving. He taught me to love art and respect history. My heart is breaking. All the male images that I sculpt or paint are a little like him. He is my ideal, my angel, my hero and my inspiration forever.

19/10/2021

Mila greets you 👋 from the Golestan palace, Iran کاخ گلستان

Hello! Just a few words about me)) I have recently started to write more, so you read more. I have met many new virtual friends. 🤜🏻🤛🏻 But after all, there are real people behind any profile and I also am very real. Let me briefly introduce myself.

My name is Mila, I was born in Russia, but now I live in London. 🇬🇧 My father is from a refugee family, he was born in Tajikistan 🇹🇯 My father speaks Farsi. I worked as a journalist in Moscow 🇷🇺 and then decided to study to become a ceramic artist. Eventually, I have graduated as a Sculpturer from the Royal College of Art. I work a lot with bronze, ceramics, and other media. I love performance.

My favorite topic and the main ache is the preservation of the world’s cultural heritage. Therefore, I travel a lot and study UNESCO heritage sites and the places that could have been still existing. It was not easy recently, because of many borders were actually closed ✋ and my personal borders were also been tested for strength. Being a mother of three children 🧒🏼👧🏼👶 and being torn between them and my passion in art 🎨 is very difficult. But I try to do the impossible and to think globally. I am very glad that I have your support. 🙏🏼 I wish the ancient gods send their love and be with you!

15/10/2021

🔥My first bronze sculpture🔥 excited to present

The LOL Doll symbolises archaic feminism, pertinent to contemporary women, who have acquired masculinity without the loss of femininity. Photographs from the Second World War document the female inhabitants of the ghetto - unprotected and tormented. A dozen years later in Israel, we see a completely different image - confident women, dressed in uniform and holding machine guns. Yet, remaining elegant and sexy.

Medium: Bronze, patina, resin, wool, waxed thread
Size: H56 x W21 x D18

11/10/2021

💥I can’t believe it is done ✅ 💥The main part of my total installation . The most ☝️difficult and longest project I have done so far.

Medium: Ceramics, pigments, glaze, plywood
Size: H3.00 x W3.16 x D8

EXITIUM is a manifest, cast in ceramic form. It proclaims war. War against the destruction of memory, of culture, of history. War against oblivion. War declared and led by those forgotten in the layers of history, but by those to who we owe history – the ruins. EXITIUM is a manifest of those that cannot speak, so I shall speak for them.

In the relief, ancient monuments from the cradle of civilisation - Mesopotamia - and the heroes they commemorated are endowed with contemporary weaponry: modernised and instilled with life to lead the riot against their brutal eradication.

06/10/2021

Happy 🐍🦕🐢🐫🦐 !

I am an artist and sculptor. I work a lot with animal images. My heroes are fantastic beasts, but you can find traits of real animals in them. I adore nature, it fascinates me and fills me. In this photo you can see a snake, but this is not entirely true, in fact it is the tail of a mythical beast - Mušḫuššu. He is a symbol of the ancient Babylonian god Marduk. For me he is also a symbol of my project

Now we, together with my Beast, are fighting to preserve the cultural heritage of the Middle East and wherever culture, history and nature are in danger.

01/10/2021

Islands vibes: How I Ended This Summer

This summer I spent several weeks in the Seychelles. I needed a completely new project to take my mind off my graduation show.

Do you think I was swimming in the sea? No! I don't like swimming. Do you think I sunbathed on the beach? No! I don't like the sun! For most of this time, I climbed the mountains, observed turtles and made sketches of crabs and shells. All this in preparation for my new project for the Seychelles Biennale.

Not a bad place to work, you might say. Yes! I have always said that being an artist is very interesting. There is one small drawback - the Seychelles is in the red zone and you cannot return directly to London, you have to make a little extra trip to the center of the earth.

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