Artist, 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 ::

• SMBQ Artist in Residence 2023-24, project: A wearable vibrotactile device to aid post-stroke rehabilitation,    
  
• University of Birmingham & Imperial College London (2023)
  
• 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 ::

• 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 ::

• Award, London Creative Network/SPACE, professional development programme (2022-23)
  
• Shortlist, Here+There Residency, £25k award, Bristol + Bath Creative R+D (2022)
  
• Grant, Arts Council Emergency Response Fund for Individuals (2020)
  
• Shortlist, Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary (2017+2019)
  
• Grant, The Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education Award (2016)
  
• Grant, The Eaton Fund Grant (2016)
  
• Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize, Aesthetica Magazine (2014)
  
• Grant, AHRC Research Preparation Masters Studentship UCL (2011-13)
  
• Award, Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize (2011)
  

publications ::

• ‘The Practice of Neuroaesthetics’, in Neuroaesthetics: A Methods-Based Introduction, Balinisteanu, Tudor, and Kerry Priest, eds. (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2023)
• ‘Care-less Desire’, in CARE(LESS). A SUPPLEMENT TO ON CARE, Sharon Kivland & Gemma Blackshaw eds. (MA BIBLIOTHEQUE, 2021)
  
• ‘Instructions for Unworking’ in Woven Scores, Alisa Oleva ed. (online zine, 2021)
  
• PROVA: 4, RCA Arts & Humanities Research Journal (London: Royal College of Art, 2018)
  
• Why Would I Lie? Haslam Susannah & Peter Le Couteur eds. (London: ArtQuarters Press, RCA, 2015  
• Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2014: 100 Contemporary Artists (York: Aesthetica Publishing, 20214)
  
• Slade Graduate Research 2013 (London: Slade Press, UCL, 2013)
  
• Subject to Change, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz, D. Hunter and A. Kucharko eds., Exhibition Catalogue  (London: Deconstruction Project, 2012)
  

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 + workshops ::

• Visiting tutor, delivering talks+seminars for MA Students on Pre-sessional Course EAP, RCA (2018-22)
• Workshop Giving Voice to Synthetic Sonics, workshop with Amina Abbas-Nazari, RCASU (2021)
• Visiting lecturer, teaching placement, online, BA students Liverpool Hope University (2021)
• Visiting lecturer, teaching placement, artist talk, leading studio crits and 1-1 tutorials, BA students, UCA Farnham (2020)
• Workshop everyday sculptures <> sculpting everyday, digital workshop for Virtual Culture Programme, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2020)
• Visiting lecturer, co-leading cross-school crits, Royal College of Art (2018+19)
• Visiting artist, artist talk and studio tutorials, BA Fine Art, Bath Spa University (2018)
• Workshop Sculpture Studio Day for secondary school students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2016)
• Visiting artist, BA Sculpture programme, Camberwell College of Art, UAL (2015+16)
• Workshop Drawn From Live for A-level students, commissioned by ReachOut RCA (2014)
• Workshop Big Draw at 38 Hoe Street, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council (2013)
• Workshop Cosmetic, making clay pastels + talk for Materials at the Centre, Institute of Making, UCL, London (2013)
• Workshop Drawing On+Off-Paper and Painting Methods & Materials, Slade Summer School (2013)
• Alumni Mentor, artist talks, School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University (2013)

other professional experience ::

• Purchasing Projects Manager, The Consortium for Purchasing & Distribution, Trowbridge, UK (1998-08)
• Project Assistant, Deutsche Post AG, Marketing Letter Division, Bonn, Germany (1997-98)
• Environmental Project Internship, Kambas Factory, Ortved, Denmark (1996)