GRAŻYNA WIKIERSKA
About
I like choosing all kinds of media to tell a story. Stories from my life, memories and subconscious. Everything is like a dream or an illusion to me. Throughout the creating process I observe a plot of my mind. Projects are afterimages of dying story-lines which I let go. It gives me an incredible imagination and inventiveness to explore myself and others. Painting has become a source of meditation.
Main topics in my art are past, disappearance, transparency, "tiny fissures in the continuous catastrophe". Reflections on human condition & criticism of the mainstream. At the same time there are glimpses of beauty in everyday life I try to capture. As an outsider I take the role of crazy jester who is able to laugh at the absurdities of modern life. I seem to balance between two aspects of life: suffering & happiness, beauty & ugliness, but very often I'd like to blur the boundaries between them.
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bio
Grażyna Wikierska, born in Poland in 1978 and currently live and work in England. Graduated from the University of Zielona Góra - Visual Art Institute in Poland with a Master of Art degree in visual art education in 2002. Graduated with distinction - Art & Design at Yeovil College in 2020. She likes experimenting in a variety of different fields of art. She switches from one medium to another, experimenting in video, photography, painting and performance. Main topics are past, disappearance, human condition & criticism of the mainstream. Recent works refer to spirituality, shamanism, self-discovery, fragility of everyday life and vulnerability.
education
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Diploma in Visual Arts at Institute of Visual Arts in Zielona Góra / University of Zielona Góra in Poland 1998 - 2002;
Diploma in Art & Design at Yeovil College;
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