I am a visual artist born in Poland, living and working in London. I work across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing. My work refers to mundane everyday experiences and surroundings and it often addresses my own fears and anxieties related to social expectations, womanhood and failure. I am interested in the relationship between humans and non-humans and fascinated by the absurd. I find inspiration in situations or objects that are bizarre, curious and out of place. In my most recent work I aim to use absurdity as a tool to draw attention to what may be hidden behind the banal. Currently I am in the final stages of practice-led PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art. I graduated from Fine Art Sculpture at the Slade (2012 MA) and Wimbledon College of Art (2010 BA) and History of Art, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (1999 MA). Selected exhibitions: Claw, Goethe Institute, Kraków, Poland (2022); …you ate three hundred devils, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland (2022); Melancholia, Freud Museum, London (2020); Matter of the Anthropocene, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham (2020); Simple Gestures, BWA Katowice, Poland (2020); Handiwork, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane, Poland (2019); Near Thing, APT Gallery, London (2018). Residencies include: Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland (2019), Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire (2019); Grizedale Arts Artist Re-orientation, Lawson Park, Cumbria (2013); In 2015 I curated Karen Guthrie and Grizedale Arts project House of Ferment for ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland. In 2022 I was a recipient of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for student entry, the exhibition tours nationally till March 2023. |
Education
| From 2017 | Practice-led PhD The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2019 | MPhil The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2012 | MA Fine Art Sculpture The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2010 | BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) Wimbledon College of Art UAL London |
| 1999 | MA History of Art Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland
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Selected Exhibitions and Events
| 2023 | Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, ArtHouse Jersey, St Mary, Jersey A Body, A Part, APT Gallery, London, UK ...you ate three hundred devils, with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Galeria Skala, Poznań, Poland The Mothers, with Małgorzata Markiewicz, Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor CRICOTECA, Kraków, Poland |
| 2022 | Claw, Goethe Institut, Kraków, Poland Planetary Ferment: A Proposal for Post-Apocaplyptic Dinner Party, The Showroom, London …you ate three hundred devils, with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland Broadcast, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK Objects From the Misanthropocene, Octagon Gallery, UCL, London, UK SPIIIIINELESS, UCL Art Museum, London, UK |
| 2021 | JUEMAI IV Objects in Dialogue, interactive, multidisciplinary project with Antoni Miralda, Food Cultura, Barcelona |
| 2020 | Melancholia, Freud Museum, London UK Matter of the Anthropocene, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK Simple Gestures, BWA Katowice, Poland, curated by Marta Lisok |
| 2019 | Matter of the Anthropocene, Mathare Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya Comfort Zone, project shown at Second Colleex Workshop, Cieszyn, Poland, supported by Malcolm Hughes Research Bursary and and the Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary Re-Domesticated, Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK, supported by Polish Culture Institute London Visions of Protest. Blake the March, The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London Sharing Borders, The Slade Research Centre UCL London, supported by London Arts and Humanities Partnership Handiwork, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane, Poland One Hundred Sheep, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland |
| 2018 | Arte Util Working Group, Calthrope Projects, London, UK, supported by London Arts and Humanities Partnership Near Thing, APT Gallery, London, UK Little Clown, My Heart, Arthouse1, London, UK |
| 2015 | Village Table, Coniston Institute, Lake District, Cumbria, UK House of Ferment, ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland, supported by Polish Culture Institute London, KBF and Arts Council England House of Ferment, Science Gallery London, supported by Arts Council, England Unexpected Encounters: Katarzyna Depta-Garapich and Stanisław Wejman, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK |
| 2013 | Colouring the Invisible, curating Julia Vogl project, ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland |
| 2012 | In Paradisum, Richmix Cinema, London, UK Threadneedle Prize 2012, Mall Galleries, London, UK Subject to Change. Perspectives from UK Based Polish Artists, Kursaal Space, Southend on Sea, UK Videoooooh, The Slade Research Centre UCL UK Polish Contemporary Artists Film Screenings, Richmix Cinema, London, UK Modern Madonna’s, St George’s Arts Centre, Esher, Surrey, UK |
| 2011 | Deep Cuts/Last Measures, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London, UK Print and Design Now!, SW1 Gallery, London, UK curated by Julia Alvarez Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK and touring nationwide, selected by Iwona Blatzwick, Rachel Whiteread and Tim Marlow Bloomsbury Festival, London, UK |
| 2010 | Volume and Void, Wimbledon College of Art Sculpture Studio, London UK Taking a Line for a Walk, Sculpture Project Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK, selected and curated by Soraya Rodriguez YPA, Metal Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK |
| 2009 | Dimensions of the Present Moment, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, UK |
Residencies
| 2019 | Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland |
| 2013 | Artist Re-Orientation Residency, Grizedale Arts, Lake District, Cumbria, UK |
| 2013 - 2014 | Artist in Residence, Henrietta Barnet School, London, UK |
| 2011 | Merz Barn, Lake District, Cumbria, UK |
Conferences and selected talks
| 2022 | Making Artistic Research Public, speaker; EARN European Artistic Network, The University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland Inheriting the Family, speaker; Storytelling: Intangible Inheritances, Oxford Brookes University, UK In Focus:Young Poland Today, speaker; Young Poland exhibition at William Morris Gallery, London, UK |
| 2021 | Post-Research Condition, speaker: EARN European Artistic Network, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 2020 | Art and the Rural Imagination, speaker; Arts University Bournemouth in partnership with The Tree Houses, New Forest, UK |
| 2019 | The use-ful-less-ness of the experiment. Anthropology and the Assembly of the Unexpected, speaker; Second Colleex Workshop, Cieszyn, Poland Sharing Borders, co-organiser; The Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK |
| 2018 | Inter-Nation, speaker; European Artistic Network, Grad Cam, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Impacts of Gender Discourses, Polish Politics, Society&Culture, speaker; SSEES, UCL, London, UK |
| 2014 | In Search of Public Space, seminar and book launch of Where the Beast is Buried by Joanna Rajkowska, speaker; SSEES, UCL, London, UK hosted by eMigrating Landscapes |
Publications
| 2023 | Three Sisters. Practices of Usership, The Slade Press, UCL, London, UK Excursion, images and text for Czas Kultury, volume on human-animal relationships, vol 3/2023 |
| 2022 | Miś: White Bear from Zakopane, text in Art and The Rural imagination, published by More Than Ponies and Arts University Bournemouth Ghost from the Mountains, cover image and text for Siggi Le Magazine de Sociologie, L’Esprit Libre, SODEC, Quebec, Canada |
Grants and awards
| 2022 | Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for Student Entry Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK |
| 2021 | Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK |
| 2019 | Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK Polish Culture Institute London grants support for Re-Domesticated residency and exhibition at Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK |
| 2018 | London arts and Humanities Partnership LAHP grant support for attendance and research paper at European Artistic Network EARN Inter-Nation conference in Dublin, Ireland London Arts and Humanities Partnership LAHP grant support for Arte Util Working Group at Calthrope Project, London, UK |
| 2015 | Arts Council England Grants for Arts award for House of Ferment ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland (lead artist together with Karen Guthrie); project was also supported by grants from Polish Culture Institute London and Kraków festival Office (KBF) |