Anna Matykiewicz

My work explores the threshold between what is seen and what is sensed — between body and landscape, presence and disappearance, memory and perception.

In my current body of work, Nocturnal Bodies, figures emerge from darkness without becoming fully resolved. Forms dissolve, edges blur, and fragments of the body move between recognition and uncertainty. What is visible is partial; what is withheld remains active.

Rather than describing a specific emotion or individual, these works explore the moment before experience becomes fully named. The figure becomes a psychological and perceptual space — something encountered gradually through fragments, atmosphere and absence.

I am interested in the way the eye searches and the mind completes what it cannot fully see. Darkness is not simply a background, but an active space in which perception shifts and subtle forms surface.

Presence without resolution.

2024 Digital Marketing, NFQ Level 8, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland
2005 B.A. Degree in Visual Communications, Poznan, Poland

Exhibitions:
2026: FORWARD // REWIND // Group show, Oink Gallery, Swindon, UK (3rd July)
2026: The Made in Wicklow Showcase, Powerscourt, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow (31st January- 1st March 2026)
2nd of March,The Box Gallery, Group Exhibition, Southsea, United Kingdom
March 2023 "Outside the box" Charity Art Auction, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
February 2023 Solo Exhibition; "Oink Gallery"; Swindon, UK
2022 Cirencester POP-UP Gallery, Group Show, Cirencester, UK
27th April 2019 Solo Show; "Oink Gallery"; Swindon, UK
4-7 October 2018 The Other Art Fair London
26-29 July 2017 The Other Art Fair Bristol The Passenger Shed,
May 2012 “More than meets the eye”; Group Show; Dublin; Ireland
22 March 2012 “Once upon a time…” ; Solo Show; Centre of Creative Practices; Dublin; Ireland
June 2008 “Made to Last “; Group Show; Back Loft Art Gallery; Dublin; Ireland
August 2007 “New Community Expo”; Group Show; RDS; Dublin; Ireland