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Across painting and installation, I try to articulate poetic, inter-subjective dialogues. I create diagrams of fragmented thoughts and emotions that operate fluidly between the future and the past, which I want to bring to the now. I am interested in confronting my personal space with cultural constructs, deriving inspirations from myriad sources: psychoanalysis, linguistics, pop culture and the art history - recently particularly fascinated by the horror genre, art deco and socialist ornaments as well as renaissance frescoes.
My works mirror painterly sensitivity defined by vitality, affect and unknowingness. I highlight physicality and psychology of the painterly gesture, wondering whether the image has a body; and if yes – is it a social, physical or psychological one. I address these aspects by playing with identification, switching roles and projecting a gaze between a producer, a subject and a viewer; as well as testing their relationships. I understand the painterly-material-space in terms of speech, and I’m drawn to a personal residue on vocalizations – manipulations of the facts, mistakes, fuzziness, memory and capability - apposing them with clearer and more objective passages.
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Born in Nowy Sacz, Poland.
Lives and works in Bristol, UK.
CV
EDUCATION
2019-18 and 2017-16 Turps Banana Art School, Correspondence Course / London, UK
2010-2005 Academy of Fine Arts, MFA in Painting / Warsaw, PL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021
> Spelling; Galeria XX1; Warsaw (Pl) (solo)
> Painters Posting Paintings; group show curated by Joe O’Rourke, online
2020
> Residency Show; The Garage; Bristol (UK); (solo)
2019
> Garbage Pail Kids - group show curated by Kurt Beers, TopaintersTopaintings, online
> Cosmic Fishing - group show, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol (UK)
> Another Time, Another Place - group show curated by Adam Hedley, Bocabar, Bristol (UK)
2018
> Sightings - group show curated by Phil Root, Caraboo Projects, Bristol (UK)
> Paper Cuts - group show curated by Kristian Day, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
> Places Faces and Spaces - group show curated by Hedley Roberts; New Art Projects, London (UK)
2017
> Paper Cuts - group show curated by Kristian Day; Tripp Gallery, London (UK)
> 'EBC015' Painting and Drawing - three-person show; East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol (UK)
> We Are The Ones vol.1 - group show; CGK, Copenhagen (DK)
> Pay & Display Prize 2017 - group show selected by Daphne Wright & Beatrice Haines; Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2016
> Bath Open Art Prize, FaB Festival - group show, 44AD Artspace, Bath, (UK)
> Hatched Plans - group show; Nest Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2015
> After-Images (Po-widoki) - three-person show; BWA Sokol Gallery, curated by Malgorzata Miskowiec, Nowy Sacz (PL)
2014
> Underneath It All - solo show, Hamilton House, Bristol, (UK)
2012
> Painters’ Night - group show, Praca Gallery, Szpitalna 6, Warsaw, (PL)
2011
> Start to Hangart - group show, Klima Bochenska’s Gallery, Warsaw, (PL)
> Diplomas at Lubelska - group show, Lubelska 33/22, Warsaw, (PL)
2010
> Active Side of the Unreal- The Final Show, ASP, Warsaw, (PL)
2009
> Modzelewski and His Students - group show, Kierat-1 Gallery, Szczecin, (PL)
2007
> Class No. 66 - group show, Young Artists’ Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
> Ptaszkowska & Yerka - two-person show, Gallery 011, Torun, (PL)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES:
2020
> Bricks Bristol Micro Commission
> Residency - May-July; The Garage; Bristol (UK)
2019
> Longlisted for Beers Annual Open / Summer Marathon 2020
> Shorlisted to the ‘South West Showcase Open Call’, Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (UK)
2016
> Axisweb September Artist of The Month
> Shorlisted to the ‘South West Showcase Open Call’, Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (UK)
PRESS / FEATURES:
2018
> ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 7 (print)
2016
> Axisweb Artist Of The Month, 2016
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