About Budini Art
The Artist
Anastasia Budieva, who works as Budini, is an emerging UK-based artist whose practice explores feminine identity through the lens of everyday, fast-paced life. Her work reflects the rhythms, pressures, and quiet strength found within the constant movement of modern existence. As a mother of two balancing family life, academic study, and a growing artistic career, she draws deeply from personal experience. Her practice is shaped by this continuous motion, where time feels compressed, emotions intensified, and identity constantly evolving. Working with fabric and plaster, she transforms these lived experiences into solid sculptural forms that are fluid yet grounded, holding the tension between movement and stillness, softness and strength. The work speaks to the resilience and multiplicity of contemporary womanhood, reflecting a belief that identity is not fixed but continuously unfolding, and that women can create, adapt, and define themselves on their own terms.
Inspiration and Mentorship
Her creative journey was reignited in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the birth of her first child and leaving office work, the right moment calling for new beginnings. Her love of art began much earlier, in childhood, with a fascination for drawing and colour that never left her. She is now studying for a BA in History of Art, with a long-term dream of opening her own gallery. She works from her home studio making minimalist low-relief wall sculptures using fabric soaked in plaster, and has been developing the technique for over four years. Her approach was refined through mentorship with Alexandra Remezova, an established minimalist artist from Russia, who helped her optimise her method of creating low-relief sculptures.
The Technique: Fabric, Plaster and Presence
In Budini Art Studio, each piece begins with fabric soaked in plaster, where layered textiles become a tactile language for movement. Budini experiments with varying thicknesses and textures, often combining several fabrics within a single work to draw out complex folds, tensions, and rhythmic compositions. The approach lets the material itself dictate the outcome, so gravity, resistance, and gesture shape each form organically. The curves and lines emerge from the texture rather than being imposed on it. To amplify volume and sculptural depth, she sometimes incorporates polyurethane foam beneath the surface, turning soft, pliant materials into bold architectural reliefs. Despite their rigid base, the finished works appear light and fluid: solid yet weightless, structured yet fluid, frozen in plaster and alive in form. The result is a set of timeless, serpentine surfaces that interpret the dynamics of a fast-paced life, held still in fabric. You can see this at work across her wall sculpture and bas-relief collections, including signature pieces such as the Goddess wall sculpture and Snake It Series I.
Many of her pieces are deliberately rotatable. By encouraging varied viewpoints, her practice highlights complexity and challenges singular interpretations of form. The same sculpture, turned a quarter, reveals a different rhythm and a different composition, which is partly why her work suits collectors and designers who live with their pieces rather than only view them. Available works can be browsed in the art store, and she welcomes enquiries about collaborations with designers and interiors professionals. For process notes, studio updates, and the thinking behind individual pieces, the blog is the place to look.
2025: WWA Woman's Art Award, Muse International London
AWARDS
2025: Saatchi Focus Art Fair, London
2025: Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
2025: Woman's Essence Show, London
Group exhibitions in Seoul and Monaco
EXHIBITIONS
BA History of Art (in progress)
Mentorship with Alexandra Remezova, minimalist artist