Warscapes. Listening to Ukraine
Artist’s book, Royal College of Art, 2025
Warscapes. Listening to Ukraine is an artist’s book that layers charcoal drawings with testimonies to capture the sensory and emotional experience of living through war in Ukraine. The work reflects on memory, sound, and the fragility of daily existence under constant threat, creating a poetic archive of the present.
The project was awarded the Spatial Justice Prize at the Royal College of Art and nominated for the Media Studies Prize, recognising its conceptual strength and contribution to critical discourse.
Through 40 original charcoal abstractions paired with lived testimonies, the book weaves together image, language, and atmosphere — an attempt to preserve and share the ungraspable experience of war.
The book was produced as a unique artist’s edition, crafted with traditional binding at Shepherds Bookbinders, London. It features vintage endpapers sourced from Anne Muir, giving the work an archival tactility that connects contemporary testimony with a lineage of book-making craft.
