Katya Nosyreva, PhD, 2015
Maker and Researcher
Media: Porcelain, drawing
Katya is an artist, maker, and researcher based in Devon, UK. She completed her PhD at the Prince’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts in 2015 with the thesis entitled The Unknown Craftsman and the Invisible Guild: Exploring Spiritual Principles in Islamic Art. She works with porcelain clay, exploring its unique translucent qualities, and the visual language of sacred geometry. Katya’s current research focuses on the historical development and reception of Islamicate geometric patterns. Her particular interest lies in the extant medieval manuscripts on geometry and architectural scrolls, where diagrams and text elucidate and obscure our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and geometric modes of construction.