Paulina Pawlik
MLitt Fine Art Practice- print media
Glasgow School of Art
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Fine Art / Installation/Sculpture / Sustainable Design
My location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Paulina Pawlik
First Name: Paulina
Last Name: Pawlik
University / College: Glasgow School of Art
Course / Program: MLitt Fine Art Practice- print media
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Fine Art / Installation/Sculpture / Sustainable Design
My Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
About
Paulina Pawlik lives and works in Glasgow. Pawlik makes oil paintings, charcoal drawings, monoprints in screenprinting techniques, pulp painting and handmade paper installations, creating portraits and imaginary landscapes by combining land, sky and sea elements with her memories, feelings and imagination. Her works centre on the basic theme of the human body and its need for nurturing and protection, primarily related to human emotional and spiritual needs. She focuses not only on creating an art object but re-creates emotions. She is tapping into events from her childhood and motherhood as a source of these emotions. Her works explore various themes, including the cycle of life and death, transience, change, transformation, sublime, spirituality, and creativity.Recent exhibitions: 'Eye to Paper', Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh (2023), 'Life Aquatic' on board Maid of Loch, Balloch (2023), 'Connected' Degree Show, Stow Building, GSA (2023), 'Strewn Taboos' Barnes Garage Space, GSA (2022).For the exhibition 'Eye to Paper,' Pawlik created charcoal portraits where she transferred her emotions and memories into the conscious act of drawing. The project 'The Life Aquatic' inspired by the water landscape, let her develop the theme of well-being, the value of different lifestyles, hidden depths and the unconscious, life flow. On her degree show 'Connected', she displayed various collages and assemblages made from handmade paper and jute rope. She destroyed her prints and drawings and created new work from them to manifest the idea of the cyclical passing of both material and spiritual things. Pawlik has been honing her skills in painting and printmaking for the past several years studying at the Glasgow School of Art (2019- 2022) and the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2011-2015). She took part in workshops in large-scale woodblock and etching at Glasgow Print Studio in 2018. Before developing her artistic skills, she studied philosophy, which taught her to look at reality from different perspectives and analyse our perceptions and beliefs. For her, painting is also a way of learning about reality, a form of questioning. She is focused on the constant investigation, abstraction and development from objective source studies.
In my degree exhibition, "Connected", I displayed collages, pulp paintings and installations made of handmade paper and jute rope. I destroyed my prints and drawings from previous years of study to make new works. The process of making my paper let me manifest the idea of the cyclical passing of both material and spiritual things. This work was done when I was grieving after my father's death. I asked myself what to create when I felt so weak and empty. Paper is delicate and prone to destruction, but it is also durable and gives the never-ending possibilities of creating. I found destroying my works and creating my Paper Sanctuary therapeutic, sensual and meditative. Some of my drawings will never be seen again. There are emotions I can't feel anymore, but they are part of it. As an artist, I can build from what has been gathered. The papermaking process gave me a new perspective, which was a bridge in my thinking about being creative and responsible for my resources, methods and each work I've made and how my creative choices affect the environment.
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