1. Viral shark illustration
2. Mural comission
3. Another work of mine that was popular online at that time
London, UK
2015
Online work

In July 2015 a fun little illustration I made of a shark racked up 450,000 likes and shares on Tumblr. It was pinned a bunch on Pinterest, and some people even got it tattooed on their bodies. 

As a result in late 2015 my work was spotlighted in ArtParasites, an online art magazine and community.

I met with the editors in Berlin and gave a short interview about the opportunities I had following the feature, which came out in June 2016.


Galina (UK): after being featured on ArtParasites I was commissioned to paint a mural in London


‘Art Parasites is one of those great platforms for exposing work like mine and connecting me to likeminded people and artists. After being featured I actually flew out to Berlin and met one of the people behind the Art Parasites page and it was so good to connect the online art worldwith reality.’

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