Kristina Tonev

Kristina Tonev (b. Lithuania) is a Suffolk-based artist working in sculpture, performance, and installation. Currently in her final year of Fine Art at the University of Suffolk, Tonev explores time, mortality, and care through labour-intensive, durational works. Her recent practice includes weaving straw vertebrae that adapt to their environment, combining fragility and resilience. Engaging with the body and materials in states of transformation, her performances evoke cycles of life and decay. Tonev's work is driven by process and sensory experience, with a sensitivity to the passage of time and the tactile qualities of natural, often ephemeral, materials. Saxmundham