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A rock is a perfect metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed its sculptural limits beget a kind of artistic proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.

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Mark

Woman with child checking emailArtist, collaborator and researcher based in London. Born during the communist regime in Gdansk, I initially trained as an engineer before studying fine art. These shifting experiences have underscored her interests in performed materiality, embodied cognition and neurodiverse aesthetics.

In my practice, I use multimodal approaches combining sculptural objects with drawing, instructional scores, soundscapes and digital technologies. My participatory installations and projects explore imaginary overlaps, empathetic states, and connections between different bodies and spaces, human and non-human, physical and digital.




studio @ Barbican Arts Group Trust, London

projects — collaborations — residencies :: 
  • Resonant Returns: Collaborative project with Imperial College London and Chiswick Stroke Club, exploring vibrotactile feedback for post-stroke rehabilitation, funded by N-Code network (2025-onward)
  • Neurohorizons[Sensing Landscapes]: Project exploring sensory feedback and therapeutic spaces, Unreal concept in development at Birmingham Open Media (2024-onward)
  • SMBQ Artist in Residence, project: A wearable vibrotactile device to aid post-stroke rehabilitation,  University of Birmingham & Imperial College London (2023-24)
  • AuralDiversities: Field Trip to Bervie Brow Research Station, Cold War radar and listening station, Scotland (2023)
  • Neuroaesthetics Conference: Universality of Aesthetic Experience, artist talk, University of Suceava, Romania (2023)
  • The Listening Academy London, devised by Lucia Farinati in collaboration with Brandon LaBelle and Errant Sound as part of The Listening Biennial, Berlin (2021)
  • Workshop, Giving Voice to Synthetic Sonics, with Amina Abbas-Nazari, RCASU (2021)
  • Call and Response ||, research presentation, NAFAE, RCA, University of Greenwich (2021)
  • Das Haus Lab #03 Fellow, creative labs and online community project (2020-21)
  • INTERFERENCE, INTERRUPTION: Mentored by RESOLVE, The School of Broadcasting, Radio Art Catalyst (2020-21)
  • Masterclass: Deepfakes - Synthetic Media And Synthesis with ThoughtWorks Arts and Baltan Laboratories, led by Ellen Pearlman (2020)
  • Film collage contribution Circular for Entanglement: Just Gaming, RCA Visual Culture Lecture Series, Zoom/Royal College of Art (2020)
  • Digital Workshop everyday sculptures sculpting everyday, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council as part of Virtual Culture Programme (2020)
  • 2019 Facilitator“BODYWORKS” or “WORK IN THE HEAD”, OPENLAB project by A de la Fe, Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2019)
  • Co-host and text selector for Sauna Reading Group #6, project by Barry Sykes, The Finnish Church, London (2019)
  • Collaborative study Disrupting Object-Gesture with a neuroscientist dr Adela Desowska (2019)
  • Collaborative project d/UMP :: diagrammatic mode of thinking, writing and talking in artistic processes, with artist /researcher Annabelle Craven-Jones (2018)
  • Sound contribution kneading malleables for lololol.net, online manuscript of Taoist-informed experimental practices for mind and body cultivation in contemporary times, presented @Bangkok Biennial (2018)
  • Workshop contribution to Open Choreography Residency: Tate N Lyle with Fionn Duffy, Siobhan Davis Studios, London (2018)
  • Interview for Episode #4 Resilient Home, Shift + Signal podcast series exploring deeper adaptations to contemporary social, economic and environmental crises, produced by Dr Alex Lockwood (2018)
  • Voice performance for Theatre of Reading and Speaking, RCA Research Exhibition, Asylum, London (2017)
  • Artist in Residence at The Quadrant Romford, commissioned by Romford Contemporary Arts Programme (2015)
  • thebARTershop, public exchange & maker space, Hoe Street Central, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council, London (2014)
  • Artist in Residence for regeneration project 38 Hoe Street, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council, London (2013)
  • Presentation for Materials at the Centre, Institute of Making, UCL, London (2013)
  • Presentation Maintaining Art, or Invisible Labour? for Slade Performance Day, UCL, London (2013)
  • Artist in Residence with Trelex Artist Residency, Switzerland (2012)
  • No Working Title, Collaborative project for Learning Department, Tate Modern, London (2011)

exhibitions ::
  • ENCODED REALITIES, Centrala / Digbeth First Friday, Birmingham (2024)
  • ARTE 2023, Project Space, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London (2023)
  • RCA2022 Autumn Show, group show, The Hangar, Royal College of Art, London (2022)
  • Technology in the 21st Century, online exhibition with ArtBanquet, featuring GestureLabs (2021)
  • RCA Research Biennale 2021 online project exposition (2021)
  • TRIPLE HARVEST:: extracted:crashed:smelted, sound commission for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northampton (2020)
  • 2084, RCA Research Exhibition, Dyson Gallery, London (2020)
  • GestureLab 3:: BodyWorks Reimagined, installation commissioned by Artillery, CRATE, London (2019)
  • GestureLab 1:: Mirroring and Enacting, commissioned for E17 Art Trail, One Hoe Street, London (2019)
  • There's something lurking in the shadows that might be interesting, Dyson Gallery, London (2019)
  • FLIGHT MODE, RCA Research Exhibition, Assembly Point, London (2018)
  • d/UMP : diagrammatic mode of thinking in art processes, with Annabelle Craven-Jones, Spike Island TestSpace, Bristol (2018)
  • Solution 66, selected + curated by the icing room for Art Licks Weekend 2017, London (2017)
  • SPLIT (land) SCAPES, installation with Vanessa Maurice-Williams, Gallery LockIn, Brighton (2017)
  • Daybreak, RCA Research Exhibition, Safehouses, Peckham, London (2017)
  • FALSEWORKS + INTERMEDIARIES, Solo Exhibition, ArtWorks Project Space, London (2015) 
  • Why Would I Lie, RCA Research Biennial, Dyson Gallery, London (2015) 
  • Socially Engineered Machine, Control Room, Redcliffe Bridge, supported by Bristol City Council (2014) 
  • TIAF London 2014, The Rag Factory, London (2014) 
  • Aesthetica Art Prize, Exhibition, York St Mary’s, York (2014) 
  • Unknown Quantity, The Looking Glass Art Space, Bristol (2013) 
  • Slade MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (2013)
  • City Methodologies 2013, Exhibit & Event, UrbanLab, London (2013) 
  • Subject to Change, Deconstruction Project, Kursaal Space, Southend on Sea (2012)
  • These Words I Seek Are Not My Own, Motorcade/FlashParade, BV Studios, Bristol (2012)

recognitions ::

publications ::

education ::
  • PhD Fine Art (Practice-based), Thesis: Sculpting with object-gestures: An everyday working gesture as an artistic proposition and a space to reimagine material resonances. Supervised by: Prof Mel Jordan, Dr. Joanne Tatham, Royal College of Art, London (2022)
  • MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London (2013)
  • BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Spa University (2011)
  • BEng (European) Engineering (Production & Ergonomics), Politechnika Gdanska, Poland & University of Exeter, UK (1998)
  • Studium Pedagogiczne (Certificate in Education), Politechnika Gdanska, Poland (1999)


lecturing :: 
  • Royal College of Art (2018-2022): Artist talks and seminars for MA students on Pre-sessional Course English for Academic Purposes 
  • Liverpool Hope University (2021): BA Fine Art and Creative Arts, artist talk and tutorials (online) 
  • UCA Farnham (2020): Artist talk, studio crits and tutorials for BA Fine Art 
  • Royal College of Art (2018-2019): Co-leading cross-school crits 
  • Bath Spa University (2013 & 2018): Artist talk and studio tutorials, BA Fine Art 
  • Camberwell College of Art, UAL (2015 & 2016): Teaching placements, artist talk and seminar, studio crits and tutorials for BA Sculpture

workshop commisions::
  • Resonant Clay: exploring vibrotactile recovery for post-stroke movement (2024): Clay workshop testing rehabilitation device for post-stroke movement with Imperial College researchers & stroke ambassadors at Rosetta Life
  • Giving Voice to Synthetic Sonics, workshop with Amina Abbas-Nazari, RCASU (2021)
  • everyday sculptures <> sculpting everyday, digital workshop for Virtual Culture Programme, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2020)
  • Sculpture Studio Day for secondary school students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2016)
  • Drawn From Live for A-level students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2014)
  • Big Draw at 38 Hoe Street, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2013)
  • Cosmetic, making clay pastels + talk for Materials at the Centre, Institute of Making, UCL, London (2013)
  • Drawing On+Off-Paper and Painting Methods & Materials, Slade Summer School (2013)

other professional experience ::
  • Volunteer Mentor with Arts Emergency (2025) 
  • Freelance Pastoral Tutor (2022-2024): Centre for Young Musicians, Guildhall School of Music 
  • Purchasing Projects Manager / Buyer (1998-2008): The Consortium for Purchasing & Distribution, Trowbridge, UK
  • Project Assistant (1997-98), Deutsche Post AG, Marketing Letter Division, Bonn, Germany
  • Environmental Project Internship (1996), Kambas Factory, Ortved, Denmark






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