Tuesday 26 November 2013

Skopelos Residency 2013





























Skopelos Residency Artworks

Here are a few artworks from my art residency on Skopelos Island, Greece. They reflect on my travels through France, Spain, Portugal and Greece this year and my cultural experiences. The colours, tones and shading are all a reflection of my identity and emotions.









Monday 25 November 2013

Masters Graduation Show

Here are some belated photos from my Masters exhibition back from June, 2013. I was really proud of these works as I felt they conveyed an honest emotion that I had been exploring the past year and a half. I felt that my concept and my string of ideas depicted the loss and melancholia towards my Polish homeland.





Ode to Lieux de Memoire


This is an exhibition I had in June 2013 in Launceston, Tasmania. I was very happy with the outcome as I sold nearly all my work! It was such a wonderful experience to have a solo show outside of Hobart. The opening was a great success and there were lots of people who came to support me! Here are a few photos and an artist statement from the show:


Artist statement

From my perspective as a first-generation child of Polish migrants, this exhibition depicts an imagined landscape. Evoking senses of memory and loss, my aim has been to investigate the tensions between questioned identity and socio-cultural hybridity. With the intention to suggest an unfolding of narrative, the work performs as a theatre, responding to experiences from travelling through Europe last year. Heavily influenced by German Expressionist Cinematography, my monochromatic palette, interspersed with highlights of red, ultimately speaks of a ‘patriotic fantasy’. The protagonist evident throughout this exhibition acts as a traveller or lost seeker, referencing photographs of my great-grandmother from early twentieth century. As I endeavour to re-experience the imagined, literary and historic homeland, I refer to the words of historian Raphael Samuel, who declared, nostalgia is the sigh of the historically orphaned.