Tatik is a working studio in Ivanhoe East. One corner room, floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides, easels, a long shared table, and light for most of the day. It runs as three things at once: a school, an open studio, and a room you can hire.

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Classes are small and taught in the academic tradition — for adults, for children, and one to one. What you make is up to you. The training is the same either way: how to look at a thing, and how to get it down.

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Open studio is the unstructured half. Bring your own work, take a spot, use the room, and make it alongside other people instead of alone at a kitchen table. Work made in the studio hangs on the walls and can be bought directly, and the space is available to hire for groups, workshops, shoots and small events.

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The studio is Tatiana Bolotova's. She trained for eight years in the classical academic tradition in Moscow, then a BA at Central Saint Martins in London and an MA in Art & Design at UNSW. She paints and makes from life — life-drawing rooms, plein-air, an expedition to Antarctica, four collaborative works with Yulia Iosilzon. Academic skill has quietly fallen out of fashion; her teachers refused to let it die, and Tatik exists to pass it on the same way.

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The timetable changes with the seasons. Come and look at the room before you book anything.