After performing in over thirty countries with the now-euthanised collective Chkbns as a frontwoman at the likes of KEXP, SXSW, The Great Escape, Reeperbahn Music Festival and Canadian Music Week, and participating in artistic development programmes (Goethe Institut, Swedish Institute, British Council) as a composer, it’s not surprising that Aneliya’s creative practice shows an eclectic blend of references and floats between things: absurd, musical, surreal, romanticist, edgy, and poetic namely.

Lately, her practice’s been shifting toward where she could synthesise her competencies as a writer, performer, and composer & create cross-genre work. She has directed music videos, made audiovisual performances, created and staged plays, penned scripts for independent features and animated shorts, and published fiction and poetry.

“Primate Show”, a miniature play about a primate navigating human society was premiered in London in 2021, being selected for the anniversary Bureau of Silly Ideas show. “Dream Trance”, an animated short investigating the roots of violence in a cat and a monkey relationship was shown at the Anti-War International Film Festival (Estonia, 2023) and Diametrale Festival (Austria, 2024). A feature-length film "Gary, Barry, Larry and Countess of Noral" for which she co-wrote a screenplay made it to the “Top 3” at the Los Angeles Lift-Off Festival in 2024.

Aneliya’s thematic range spans human conditions, the use of language, the semantic spaces inside dichotomies, and the transcendental.

At the moment she’s working on her debut novel and her first poetry chapbook in her native Russian.

Born in the Caucasus in a mixed-origin family of philologists, Aneliya lives a nomadic lifestyle and is currently residing in Brighton, UK.