ABOUT
I portray an image of modern and monstrous women, who are driven by a seductive vision of glamour, money, fame, and success. The women in my artworks are powerful, strong and beautiful, but also terrifying, depicted in a grotesque way, full of exaggeration, hyperbolism, and excessiveness. I combine contradicting elements of beauty and ugliness, pain and laugh, harmony and chaos, life and vanishing, creating a grotesque of a contemporary, sugar-coated, mass media, fashion-driven representation of society. As an artist I am deeply intrigued in consumerism and 21 century beauty concept in a tragicomic way. Consumerism and consumption leads to uncontrolled addictions. Questioning perfectionism and our tendency to being ideal.
I am focused on a body and its relation with physical objects of desire. Manicured, but deformed hands, become a symbol of an ageing part of the human body, which is less susceptible to rejuvenation through surgery or a beauty treatment.
There is a hint of criticism of capitalistic society, but aren't we all on the same journey?
Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Invisible Monsters", fashion magazines editorials, fashion campaigns, make-up tutorials, you-tube beauty series, celebrities, ancient mythology as well as other stories depicting women as dominant, powerful and monstrous, all contributed to my works.
EDUCATION
Turps Banana Painting Off-Site Programme 2019/2020
University of Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts, MA Painting 2017-2018
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, BA Fashion Design 2010-2015
Selected presentations
Summer Exhibition Hotel Elephant, London, UK 2019(7th-23rd June)
Rendez-Vous in the Lonely City, Peckham Levels, London, UK, 2018 (14th-30th of September)
Ma Painting Final Show, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK, 2018 (6th-14th of September)
62 Hands, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK, 2018.
Tactilis, PKO Bank, Warsaw, Poland, 2018.
Coming Out 2015- Kamienica Plac Małachowskiego, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.
“Encounters”, Eventuelle Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
Stockholm Design Week Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, Green House, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Fashion performance "Tradition for Fashion", Berlin, Warsaw, Germany, Poland, 2011.
Minister of Culture Award for Artistic Achievements, Poland, 2009.