Jakub Kreft

-- Visual Artist b.1984 in Gdansk, Poland.
Currently living and working in Liverpool, UK. ///
His art is devoted to unconscious mind materialising it within artistical forms of automatism. Artist is strongly convinced that unconscious is the deepest source of creativity based on our experiences. ///

Artist Statement:

My exploration of Fine Art practice is concerned around Automatism, the especially automatic drawing which origins from Surrealism. I am using this technique to capture the thoughts and emotions in today’s social life. I think it is most relevant to our times; speed, information overload, losing humanist values on a favour of technology growth which is slowly but surely change us into robots. The binary-like system is stripping us from imaginary thinking and dreaming because there is simply no place for it in a 0,1 world. Everything has been turned into a commodity and we are just about to choose what we like from it to constitute ourselves and to create our world. Is that the end game solution? I am trying to go across and to visualize the stream of unconsciousness to see what my mind is recording on the field where consciousness has no access. I believe it is very important to find yourself within thes...

BA (Hons) Fine Art @ Liverpool John Moores University, 2011-2014

//Group exhibition 29-31 July 2017 @ Hackney Wicked, London
//Solo exhibition and live performance -- 9-23 June 2017 @ Bridewell Studios&Gallery, Liverpool
//Live performance during Light Night entitled Subconscious @ LJMU - Liverpool -- May 2016
//Lunchtime Concerts Autumn Series: Live Painting and Improvisation ('Amalgamation' , 'A /a Vie' ) @ Victoria Gallery & Museum - Liverpool -- October 2016