Kasia Turajczyk

Within the space of the canvas, I try to build a world that is undeniably my own. I transform the story born in my mind into fantastic realities or into abstract collages; dependent on my mood. I paint my reflections and feelings about the human condition and our relation to other elements of the world. I build a world that is unquestionably separate from the one we live in. It is an alternate reality, one that mixes painterly qualities with surrealism and fantasy. What happens in my secret world of the unconscious part of my brain passes through my conscious mind, determined through experience, knowledge and upbringing, which then filters and strains the data from my intimate world. What is left after these processes becomes the painted story.

I begin with a plan in mind, and draw or paint a sketch according to the image in my brain. Gradually, I add more creatures and more details from fairy tales and childhood or adult culture. Then I notice suggestions from the figures or objects I have painted. For example in my two series: Phantasmagoria and the Return of Peter Pan, both of them refer to a combination of the lost world of our childhood and the nonsensical reality that surrounds us.

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EDUCATION:

1968 -1972
House of Culture & Education, Lodz, Poland – painting,
drawing and the History of Art
1971 – 1973
Art classes at high school, XXVIII Lyceum in Lodz
1974 -1975
Training in old, traditional painting and drawing techniques at the Atelier of Feliks Paszkowski
1975 – 1980
University of Lodz, Poland – Master of Arts
1982 – 1985
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Master in Philology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018. Wellington Hotel, Boscastle, Cornwall
2015 Galeria Balucka, Lodz, Poland
2013 Galeria Dzwonnica, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Devon Open Studio, Dunchideock, UK
2010 Galeria Forum, City Council Gallery Lodz, Poland
2009 Galeria Forum, City Council Gallery Lodz, Poland
2003 AWC Gallery, Den Haag, the Netherlands

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2013 Spirit of Art in Vienna, Moya-Museum of Young Art
2012 Neoreplicants, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
2012 The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mary, UK
2011 Devon Art Society, Summer Exhibition, Torquay,
2011 Admirals Club – La Guardia Airport, USA
2010 Swordfish Gallery, Exmouth, UK
2010 Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA
2010 Bologna, Italy, ArteBO Association
2007 Aanwas III (BBK), Amsterdam , the Netherlands

OPEN EXHIBITIONS:

2014 Open exhibition 2014 South West Academy, Exeter, Devon
2010 South West Contempo...