Masha is a Russian artist based in Dubai. Masha's sense of form was moulded during her student years at the Moscow Architectural Institute. At the time of her studies, she also took an interest in ceramics, discovering that clay could also serve as a vessel for her artistic aspirations. This interest was reinforced at a Tuscany ceramic school where she also studied briefly.

The very materiality of clay is both a field of Masha's artistic research and experimentation as well as a bottomless source of inspiration. She meticulously studies the material's behaviour under various — sometimes extreme — conditions that reveal its strengths and weaknesses. The cracks and ruptures are not regarded as failures, rather they are a revelation of the material's essence.