Monika Jenowein

Monika Jenowein works in Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. During the summer time lives and works in London. In 1998 she has gained the First Prize for the Hero Sculpture and was invited to join the Polish Constructionist National Society. In 1999 she has got Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and Art.

Since than for almost twenty years she has been creating portraits of people, in many mediums such from painting, photography to sculpturing. She admits, that sculpturing portraits is more special and noble for her comparing to other media. Her passion is to capture the personal nature in an artistic way as well as the characteristic traits and experience that are passed through multiple generations. She is exploring to 'think with her hands' in order to what to give away in the very first impression to the future observer and which characteristics slowly unveil, once is looked all over sides, angles and different lighting.

She finds exciting to change between styles and periods in order to reflect the souls and aspirations of her clients. The materials nowadays are adding another vast spectrum to her sculpture portraiture exploration.

Monika loves sculpturing members of families and find out which traits they pa...

I started studying Arts and Sculpture very early, at age 14 in Secondary School of Visual Arts. I made my

Baccalaureate Certificate there, together with Art Diploma in the studio of the sculptor Prof. Jolanta Zabrocka

in 1997. I was graduated from the Faculty of Graphics Arts at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and Warsaw in

2002. I obtained Master of Fine Art Diploma with distinction.

My great Art Masters among others were: Sculptor Prof. Zdzislaw Pidek. Prof. Lech Majewski from Warsaw,

Prof. W. Wegrzyn, Prof. J. Gorski.

During my master studies, in 1999, I won scholarship award from Minister of Culture.

I went to study Typography and Graphic Design in Switzerland.

Solo Exhibitions:
2015 “Portrait Sculptures” Bloomsbury Gallery, London
2015 “Sculptures” Craft Central Gallery London
2014 “Londoners”, St John’s Square, London
2011 “Portrait Sculptures” Insspire Studio, Battersea, London
2010 “London Portraits” NatWest Building, London
2006 “People’” Dutch House, Gdansk
2003 “Praha” Dutch Consulate, Gdansk
2002 “Praha” Town Hall, Praga
Group Exhibitions:
2004 “European Student’s EU Art Contest winners” Weimar
2002 ‘Scholarship winners’ Gdansk, Town Hall
1998 “Polish Constructivist Society art sculpture” Warsaw