I am a contemporary mosaic artist whose work bridges ancient craft and modern consciousness. Drawing from classical mosaic techniques, I transform tactile materials — ceramic tiles, recycled porcelain, glass smalti, and marble — into contemporary narratives that celebrate texture, humour, and the poetry of touch. By embracing a slow, meditative hand-made process, I seek to revive a sense of tactility in a world increasingly dominated by the digital and the intangible.  

In my practice, the past is not distant — it is a source of living knowledge. I explore how ancient mosaic traditions can be reinterpreted for today’s visual culture, inserting elements of pixel art, narrative fragments, and symbolic motifs into compositions that feel at once familiar and surprising. My work invites viewers to experience art through all senses — to touch, to feel, and to engage physically with surfaces often reserved only for sight.  

Having transitioned from a career in digital design to full-time mosaic art, I cherish the material world as a space of connection, memory and play. I see the act of making not only as a craft but as a dialogue between human experience, history and imagination. Each piece is a conversation between structure and spontaneity, humor and depth, surface and soul. 

Irina Kirsanova was born (June 1983) in Moscow. Worked as a Senior Designer for Walt Disney London. Lived and worked in UK, France and Canada for over 10 years in international design teams.

She founded Mosaic School Talisman for children and adults in 2021 with over 2 000 students that studies mosaic art annually. Kirsanova's mosaic works are in private collection in the UK, Spain, France, Russia, Belarus.
Creator, Contemporary Mosaic artist and founder of Mosaic School.

Education
2014 Master of Art, Graphic Design | Middlesex University, London
Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Group Exhibition
2025 SPRING. Ryazan Art Union – Russia
2024 SPRING. Ryazan Art Union – Russia
2023 AUTUMN. Ryazan Art Union - Russia
2022 ARTIS Gallery, Moscow
2014 English Opera House - London, UK

Political Views
No war