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: Excursion, Watermans Art Centre, London (2023); 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.

Current exhibition: You Ate Three Hundred Devils, SKALA Gallery, Poznań, Poland till 22nd September 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 Sculpture (First Class Hons)

Wimbledon College of Art UAL London

1999

MA History of Art

Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland

 

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions and Projects

2023

Excursion, Watermans Art Centre, London

…you ate three hundred devils, with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Galeria Skala, Poznań, Poland, curated by Marta Lisok

The Mothers!, with Małgorzata Markiewicz, Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor CRICOTECA, Kraków, Poland, curated by Kamil Kuitkowski

2022

Claw, Goethe Institute, Kraków, Poland

…you ate three hundred devils, with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland

2019

Comfort Zone, project presented at Second Colleex Workshop, Cieszyn, Poland, supported by Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary

Re-Domesticated: Katarzyna Depta-Garapich and Poppy Whatmore, Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK

Handiwork, with Małgorzata Markiewicz, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland

2015

Unexpected Encounters: Katarzyna Depta-Garapich and Stanisław Wejman, Belmacz Gallery, london, UK

Selected Exhibitions and Events

2023

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, ArtHouse Jersey, St Mary, Jersey

A Body, A Part, APT Gallery, London, UK

2022

Planetary Ferment: A Proposal for Post-Apocaplyptic Dinner Party, The Showroom, London

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

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

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

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)