2024 exams

• A hybrid is something made by combining two different elements
• Steampunk is a sub-genre or science fiction that typically features steam-powered machines, especially is a setting inspired by western civilisation during the 19th century.
• steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British victorian era of American 'wild west', in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam-power has regained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.
• Vladimir Gvozdev, also well known as Gvozdariki, is a painter and doll sculptor, born in 1966, Moscow, Russia.
• He graduated ( Vladimir Gvozdev ) in the Russian Academy of Arts in 1989.
• Two Years later, in 1991, he became a freelance painter and sculptor. His paintings are mostly in decorative style, but he loves to experiment in steampunk style too, creating a product called 'machinery'.
• His work consists of mixed media; drawing, painting and layering mechanical parts laid on top.