From an early age, I’ve worked with my hands. I loved drawing and sculpting nature and pop-culture inspired plasticine figures. For a period, shortly before middle school, that impulse dulled as I became increasingly driven by a colder, more intellectual curiosity. Still, my emotional sensitivity never fully disappeared; just around the end of middle school it started to faintly resurface, and with the time leading to the final decisions I had to make at the start of high school, it marked its presence even stronger. It was what then led me to choose Visual Arts within the International Baccalaureate, to the surprise of my family, and partly myself. Those two years became an active search for the path I could follow after graduation.
I first attended lessons in architectural drawing at Osiedle Oficerskie in Kraków with Koletek, alongside still life drawing and painting. When it became clear that architecture was not my direction, I moved to Salwatorskie Studio Artystyczne, led by Mr. Filip Konieczny and Ms. Agnieszka Sajda, where I felt for the first time a truly artistic spirit and a studio space that nourishes your potential. I focused mainly on drawing and painting there, while also attending Art History lessons, and it was there that I made my first portrait sculpture in 2021.
At that time I decided to test myself in design, which led to my move to Malta. The program did not meet my expectations, and after one semester I withdrew, but I completed a series of copper-based etching and drypoint prints inspired by Greek mythology, which remains an important part of my early work. After returning, my attention focused back to sculpture. I began atelier practice again at Gratia Artis studio, where, under the guidance of Mr. Piotr Suchodolski, I built a portfolio with sculpture studies as my next objective.
In that same year, I was admitted to all three BA programs I applied to: Aalto University’s Design and Media joint BA/MA degree program, Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. I chose Antwerp, and I am currently finishing my bachelor there. My work revolves around themes of Eros and Thanatos, and I like to mix materials, choosing technique and medium based on the idea rather than the other way around.
But what is to come?