Varvara Keidan Shavrova is a visual artist and researcher. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been awarded Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC-LAHP) studentship for her practice-based PhD “Haptic Flight: Feminist Perspectives on Flight Technologies” at the Royal College of Art (2021-2025). She completed the AHRC-funded research placement at the Science Museum London where she examined the evolution of Rolls Royce engines and the role of textiles in space flight (2023-2024). She has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions: The Blade at the Dana Research Centre, Science Museum (2025), Textile Memories at Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin (2025), Inna’s Dream (2021) at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridge (2021). Group exhibitions include Across Chinese Cities: Beijing at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2014), Unruly Encounters at Dilston Grove and Southwark Park Galleries in London (2022), Earthwise (2023) and CHASMA (2024) at Beaconsfield Gallery London, RCA Research Biennale (2025). She received awards from Arts Council England (2025, 2021, 2020), Arts Council Ireland (2021, 2020, 2019), Culture Ireland (2022, 2016, 2014, 2008). She contributed Chapters to book publications: “The Sea is the Limit: We Need to Talk About Migration” in The Sea and the Mobility in the Islamic Art, Yale Publications (2021); “Feminism and Flight” in Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art, edited by Katy Deepwell, Vernon Press (2025); “Feminist Flight” in Postwar. Art and Architecture, Wrozlaw University Press (2025).