Artist Statement:
Where art meets nature, and nature meets technology and politics, this is where I appear. In my work, I take up issues related to politics and show how it affects our society and our lives. I create artworks in which I show the impact of technology and human activity on the natural environment as well as contemporary problems and politics. I like difficult topics and I am not afraid of creating artworks with deep political or social content. I believe that through art I have a real influence on society and social life: urban and rural spaces, large human communities and small local communities. I show a new type of man who lives in a technologized society.
Education:
MFA in Fine Arts / Fine Art Education
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk,
Gdansk, Poland
Oct 2005 - Jul 2007
BFA FINE ARTS / Fine Art Education
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk,
Gdansk, Poland
Oct 2002 - Jun 2005
Diploma in Ceramics/Glass, Hull College of Art & Design (United Kingdom)
Awards & Distinctions:
Achievements:
Coordinated a stone-carving workshop at NIE National Institute of Education in Singapore. Taught students basic stone-carving techniques. From basic 2D sketch to 3D sculpture. (2018)
Created granite crest for SJI St. Joseph Institution Singapore heritage gallery. Worked with the team. Engaged and assisted students with the art project. Solved logistics problems, bought materials for the project, ordered tools from suppliers. Looked for equipment to finalise project (2019)
Publications:
ristesse engraved-issue five, Marcin Biesek “Humber” Page 80-96
https://issuu.com/engravedglass/docs/tristesse_issue_five
Lumen, The Saint Joseph Institution Magazine -issue 18, Page 6-7
https://issuu.com/sji-books/docs/lumen18-dec2019
Memorial sculpture “303 Polish Fighter Squadron”NAMM-Craftex Competition https://www.stonespecialist.com/news/events/namm-tradex-showcase-memorial-masonry
Public Collections:
2015, Victoria Cross Trust Museum, Flanders Field Memorial, Ashworth Barracks, Doncaster, UK
Professional/Teaching Experience:
I had the pleasure of working in a gallery.
I dealt with preparing exhibitions, promoting artists and selling artworks. I realized how important it is to collaborate with artists. Building a portfolio and writing about artists and promoting on social media increased the sale of works. I also tried to organize workshops with artists. In the gallery I also dealt with the display of the collection.
As an artist I also have my own experience with exhibition preparation, advertising, sales and dealing with other organizations regarding the show.
At Affordable Art Fair Singapore in 2018, I sold my sculpture. It was a pleasant experience for me. It was a time for me to discover new trends in art but also network with the other galleries and institutions.
Besides, I have experience with editorial works. I did research and I wrote about the history of Fairfield Methodist Primary School for a school heritage corner project.
am passionate about creating art and I would like to inspire and teach students to be creative and effective in an applied drawing.
Observation, technical skills, knowledge about the medium, composition, line; these elements and more are crucial in the creative process. During this journey I would like to help students to become more independent, comfortable and satisfied with the process of creating their artworks.
I like to work with the students. I conducted a stone carving workshop at NIE (Singapore)previously. I taught students how to transfer 2D idea to the 3D stone. I think knowledge about 3D and 2D medium would help me to be more effective in teaching.
I don’t have a long teaching experience but I will try to fulfill your expectations.
Over the last few years, my heart happens to gravitate towards the area of teaching and education of the arts especially even more with young people. So I have also been engaging my own daughter who is 18 months old now, with various means and ways to create art installations from objects we can recycle and branches that we can gather together from nature.
Exhibitions:
2018 - Affordable Art Fair, "The Obese Thinker and collection of marble sculpture”, Singapore
2018 - Ferens Art Gallery, “The Obese Thinker”, Hull, United Kingdom
2017 - Ferens Art Gallery, “The Boy Who Loves Music" Hull, United Kingdom
2016 - Raleigh-Hull Sister Cities, “Kalina and Olga” exhibition, Raleigh, US
2016 - Princes Queue, "Kalina", Hull, United Kingdom
2015 - Victoria Cross Trust Museum, Ashworth Barracks, "The Flanders Field", Doncaster, United Kingdom
2013 - Kingston Art Group Gallery, "Sacred Forms", Hull, United Kingdom
2011 - Ferens Art Gallery, budding art and design students from across the region have created exciting new work from their research into the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum, and the 20th-century portraits at the Ferens Art Gallery. From fashion to games design, Hull, United Kingdom
2011 - Ferens Art Gallery, Connect-Create, CSI (Culture Scene Investigation) and ID (Identification) "Head of life", Hull, United Kingdom
2011 - Middleton Hall, University of Hull. “Interactive Faces”, Hull, United Kingdom
2010 - Reveal Open Studios East Riding, Kingston Art Group Studios, “ String Attached”, Hull, United Kingdom
2010 - Studio Eleven, “Adam & Eve”, Hull, United Kingdom
2010 - Hull School of Art and Design Gallery, Ceramic exhibition, Hull, United Kingdom
2009 - St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, “Passion”, Hull, United Kingdom
2007 - Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Underground Spaces, “Mapping the City”, Sculptural Shadow Installation coordinated by prof. W?adys?aw Radwa?ski, Gdansk, Poland
2001 - Gallery A Starogard Cultural Center, “First Sin”, Starogard Gdanski, Poland
2001 - 8th International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Watches, “Angels and Devils, Birds and Musicians or Small
Sculptural Forms in Folk Art” Gdynia, Poland
Artistic Influences:
Henry Moore, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Egon Schiele, Contemporary problems, Social issues, Environmental problems,
Artist Tags:
sculpture, stone carving, figures, nude, bystanders, riots
