Artist statement
Since 1995 I have been making series of mobile objects move by air movement. In these objects the real actors are light and air movement. I often feel I am only a viewer because the effects are unexpected and surprising. Contact with these objects resembles the observation of nature, and/or meditation, which was my source of inspiration. I give my objects independent existence because I want to encourage the viewer to meditate and discover the spectacle of light. Unlike the majority of works which can be taken in one glance, these objects need time to be understood, to be discovered. Very important for them is geometrical symbolism (almost totally neglected in contemporary art) which gives them the depth of meaning.
During meditation the mind becomes sensitive to the slightest motions and starts registering phenomena which otherwise escape our attention. In the material world such an unnoticeable phenomenon is e.g. the two-dimensional reality, the reality of shadow and light, coexisting with three-dimensions but usually ignored as insignificant. Usually in art light appears only as a supplement. However, it is enough to concentrate on it to discover a world of amazing phenomena.
The co-existence of two- and three-dimensional reality is a physical and scientific fact, whereas my inspirations are intuitional and spiritual. My objects seem to border on the intuitional and rational, spiritual and scientific. Humanists read them as a metaphor of the inner world, mathematicians – as a symbol of wave functions and multidimensionality. For me, they are objects of meditation– because of their symbolic layer (like in icons) and phenomenal nature (like the meditation of nature) but also because of inspiration. Both their geometry and the use of light, their departure from figurative representation and the materiality of canvas and paint places them in the sphere of evanescent and uncontrolled phenomena.
Qualifications and training
- 2011 Art History, University of Cambridge, Advanced Diploma
- 1989 Painting and Graphics Department, Academy of Fine Arts, MA, Lodz, Poland
- 1986 Art Teaching Department, Teacher’s College, QTS, Wroclaw
Employment
- 2012 art tutor, Newham Art School of A&Z, London
- 2010 art tutor, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw
- 2006 art therapist, Society of Seniors' Friends, Wroclaw
- 2004 co - founder, manager, art tutor, The Third Age Academy of Fine Arts (ASTW), Wroclaw
- 2002 art tutor, Art College, Warsaw
- 1998 art tutor, lecturer, College for Advertisment, Lodz
Solo exhibitions
- 2003 Paintings and Objects, Poleski Center of Art, Lodz
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Journeys Through the Light, St Peter's Hungate, Norwich
- 2009 Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
- 2006 Exhibiton of Saint George’s Artists Society, BWA gallery, Bielsko
- 2005 Exhibition of Paintings (Raczkiewicz, Rojkowska, Szauer), Holiday Inn gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
- 2005 Exhibition of Saint George's Artists Society, BWA gallery, Busko Zdroj, Poland
- 2005 Exhibition of the Staff of the Third Age Academy of Fine Arts, Otwarta gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
- 2004 Exhibiton of Saint George's Artists Society, Museum of History of Lodz City, Lodz, Poland
- 2000 Exhibition of Saint George's Artists Society, Rentsch Polska Gallery, Lodz, Poland
- 1999 Exhibition of Saint George's Artists Society, Center of Contemporary Art, Lodz, Poland
- 1998 National Exhibition of Painting, Music in Painting, Obok Gallery, Tychy
- 1998 2nd National Competition of Graphic Art, Museum of Vistula, Tczew, poland
- 1995 Students from Lodz, ASP Gallery, Cracow
- 1993 'Young Polish Graphic Art', Okno Gallery, Slubice, Frankfurt
Live/Performance
- 2005 The Day of Light, ALA High School gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Workshops
- 2004 Workshops and Exhibition of Painting, U Jaksy gallery, Miechow
Projects
- 2009 EspacioEnter, Art Tech Media, Teneryfe
- 2009 Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Crosstalk, Budapest
- 2005 Golden Autumm, The Third Age Academy of Fine Arts (ASTW), Wroclaw
- 2005 The Third Age Academy of Fine Arts, The Third Age Academy of Fine Arts (ASTW), Wroclaw
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2009 Honorary Mention (category: film), International Competition AKT Marquardt Gallery, Lodz, Poland
- 1998 Honorary Mention, National Polish Exhibition of Painting, Tychy
Publications
- 2011 Decxonstruction of Geometry, Deconstruction of Light? Interview with Peter Halley
- 2008 Searching the roots.Symbols of geometrical figures in Byzantine icons and in abstract art in the XX
- 2007 Biblical visions - Anselm Kiefer`s Jericho and Open Ground
- 2007 Mediocrity on the top – report on modern art exhibition,
Other
- 2004 co- founder, Academy of Fine Arts for the Third Age (ASTW), Wroclaw
- 1997 founding member, St. George’s Artists’ Society, Lodz
