Artist Statement
The experience of growing up between America and Poland has given me a sense of multiple times and spaces coexisting and has shaped my fascination with memory, perception and architecture. In my work I often reconstruct all three with the methods of collage. In my photographs, collages and drawings I work with fragmented images that are joined together to create a discontinuous image or a kind of archive. I am drawn to the ephemerality of paper and my process often involves negotiating the jagged or fuzzy edges of collaged paper or colour planes.
The series of 100 photographs depicts the interior of my grandmother’s house in Poland which I visited in childhood in the 80s. The Marcel Proust-inspired photographs in this series explore melancholy at the transience of things and an ever-shifting memory. Whilst taking each photograph, I held a paper viewfinder to the lens, to create the effect of looking through a keyhole. I crawled under tables and searched out countless childhood viewpoints of long-forgotten cupboard handles or hand-sewn curtains, and attempted to evoke the atmosphere of a June evening with hundreds of moths or the sound of horse-drawn carts.
In the colour pencil drawings, fragments of architectures from personal memory, such as school buildings or previous homes are joined together playfully to form irrational spaces similar to labyrinths. The symbol of the labyrinth, appeals to me as both the map and the territory, offering a path for the eye to wander through and inviting the viewer on a journey.
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Education
2004-2006 MFA in Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art (University College London)
1999-2003 BFA in Visual Communication, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Dear Mondrian, David & Reva Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
2014 Collages, Skwer, Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw
2014 Projections, Wooden Gallery Studio Space, Chicago
2013 Not in View, Westminster Reference Library Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Wystaw Się (Finalist Exhibition), Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland
2026 Until, Safehouse, London
2022 Give or Take, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
2019 Sender: kunstort ELEVEN artspace, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Germany
2018 Derwent Art Prize Show, Mall Galleries, London; Trowbridge Arts,
Wiltshire & Derwent Pencil Museum, Keswick
2017 Temporär zu Hause, Glashalle City Hall, Tübingen, Germany
2013 Indications, Saint Luke's Community Centre, London
2012 Salon Art Prize 2012 Show, Matt Roberts, London
2012 WW Solo Award Group Show, WW Gallery, London
2011 The Aesthetics of Art Education, Cubitt Gallery, London
2011 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Vanishing Point, Elevator Gallery, London
2007 Illustrative 07, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
2006 A Perfect Future, Projection Gallery, Liverpool Biennale
Selected Screenings
2006 Portrait of the Composers, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
2006 Concert of Works, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
2006 Non-Grata International Vilm and Fideo Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
Selected Residencies
2022 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2019 Nelimarkka Museum; Alajärvi, Finland
2017 Kunstort Eleven Artspace; Börstingen, Germany
Collections
National Galleries of Scotland
University College London Library
Chelsea College of Art Library, London
Private Collections in the UK, USA and Poland
Paul Smith
Bibliography
2014 Projections, Exhibition Catalogue, text by Jason Foumberg
2014 Collages, Exhibition Catalogue, text by Alex Urso
Biography
American-born and of Polish heritage, she obtained a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2003) and an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (2006). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has shown her work at solo shows at Fabryka Trzciny in Warsaw (2014) and Westminster Reference Library Gallery in London (2013). Her work was shown at group shows at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland, the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Germany and the Liverpool Biennale, among others. She has participated in several international residencies.
Since 2010 she has also been working as an freelance arts educator and has worked with institutions such as Cubitt Education, Eastside and Margate Now Festival.
In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize. Her work is held in several international public and private collections. She is based in London and Margate, UK.