Marcelina Amelia

Marcelina is a UK based contemporary artist working with mixed media approaches to print, painting and drawing. She often draws inspirations from her Polish heritage, looking to religious iconography and folk tales, as well as childhood memories, the power of dreams, spirituality, sexuality, and the human condition. According to her Mum, Marcelina started drawing before she could properly speak. She has been featured in publications including Booooooom, Bomb, Art Maze, Create Magazine, Digital Arts, Vogue, Refinery29, The NY Times, Der Spiegel and Ballad Of Magazine. She exhibits work throughout the UK as well as internationally and was a featured artist of the 2017 edition of the London Illustration fair and led a The Big Draw sketch walk for Apple.

Marcelina says ‘I like to play at the tense borders between lust and innocence; joy and sadness; fun and pain. My interest in juxtaposition comes from my origins and fascination with East European culture which was eloquently described by Grayson Perry as ‘nowhere else could such horrific grief be met with such fairly-tale romanticism’.

‘I tend to utilise nature as a metaphor for everyday feelings and headaches.
My recent work also dwells into themes of self acceptance, body posit...

Education
University: 2008-2011 - University of Westminster, London, UK.
1.1 BA (Hons) degree in Illustration and Visual Communication
Graduated with a First Class Honours.1.1.
Received a Progression Scholarship for consistent high grades and artistic achievements.
2008 – Printmaking and Graphic Design; Schule Für Farbe und Gestaltung - Stuttgart, Germany
Secured a scholarship as part of a European Union Program - Leonardo Da Vinci
Obtained a Europass and a Printmaking and Graphic Design Certificate.
2002 – 2008; Jacek Malczewski School of Fine Art – Czestochowa, Poland.
Earned a distinction in Graphic design and Fine art.
Qualifications

2014 - London Print Studio - London, UK
Intermediate Screen-printing Course
2013 - Print Club London - London, UK
Screen-printing Course

Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London with Liberty Gallery 9-12.4.2018

The Other Art Fair presented By Saatchi Art, 22-25.3 Victoria House
WC1A 2QP, London

Hope is strong, 23.02 Skull & Heart gallery at Millenium gallery, Museum of Sheffield, UK

The London Illustration Fair The featured artist of LIF, OXO Tower Wharf, Southbank, London

Stylist Live Event with Of Cabbages and Kings Gallery, Olympia London

Affordable Art Fair Hamburg Nov 16 - Nov 19 Hamburg Messe u. Congress, Germany

Not Today Snake Marcelina Amelia Solo Exhibition, Jam Factory Arts Centre, Oxford

Abstract Expressions - Today at Apple X Marcelina Amelia Talk and Sketch Walk,
Apple Store, Regent Street, London

Affordable Art Fair Nacka Strandsmässan, Stockholm, Sweden

Brighton Print Fair Phoenix Brighton, Brighton

The New York Affordable Art Fair Booth 1.3 Retrospect Galleries, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA

Official Mesh Studio by Marcelina Amelia Of Cabbages And Kings Shop & Gallery
Stoke Newington, London

Art Of Being Out Group Exhibition, D Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London

Dziewuchy - Grafika Mito Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Cass Art X Aoi Illustration Exhibition Wild And Civilised, Cass Art, Islington, London ...