Lihnida Krstanoska-Blazeska is a multidisciplinary Australian-Macedonian artist, based on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia.

Lihnida graduated from UNSW Art and Design in 2019 with a Bachelor of Design, majoring in ceramics and graphic design. She is currently completing her Masters of Fine Arts, specialising in ceramics at National Art School.

Lihnida uses a combination of mediums within her practice, primarily working with ceramics and textiles to explore the preservation of her culture through an unsettling reinvention of fantastical figures and their stories.

Lihnida’s work has been exhibited across Australia and Macedonia. Her first solo exhibition Twisted Tales was held at Gaffa Gallery in 2024. Her work With my friends was also selected as a finalist for the Emerging Artist Prize at Gosford Regional Gallery in 2023. Oobert was exhibited as part of the North Queensland Ceramic Awards at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in 2022. Obert, Skipping friends and Tree Men were also featured in season 4 of the Stan exclusive Australian TV show ‘Bump’ in 2023.

Currently, Lihnida works as a ceramic tutor at Clay Sydney and is in her final year of her MFA degree at the National Art School.

My work is immersed in the visual language of children’s stories and the figures and characters associated within these narratives. I explore the characteristics that can simultaneously make these creatures so endearing and engaging, yet also unnatural and unsettling. Alongside these current narratives, I also investigate Macedonian folklore and mythology to honour my lineage and gain a deeper understanding into the traditions and narratives of my cultural history and context.