About

Sława Harasymowicz is a visual artist with essentially narrative-driven practice exploring the intersections between archive and fiction, the documentary and the uncanny, the physical and the unconscious. She works with drawing, photography, and print, especially screen-printing, as well as moving image and sound. Harasymowicz holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at University of the Arts London.

Her recent projects include Klinkerwerk, site-specific installation in WWII brickworks complex in Hamburg-Neuengamme. She exhibited at The Freud Museum, London, The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre London, FAF Social Centre for Photography, Warsaw, The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, and others. Her 12/6 presented as part of The Trouble with Value at Bunkier Gallery of Contemporary Art Kraków was a project about a particular tenement in Piasek (Sand) district in Kraków, the subject she continues to investigate.

Selected awards include The Arts Foundation Fellowship and V&A Illustration Awards, as well as scholarships from Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the field of visual arts and grants from Arts Council England. Her screenprints are included in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Prints and Drawings collection. She has lectured as visiting and guest tutor at the Royal College of Art London, University for Creative Arts, Middlesex University and others. Originally from Kraków, Poland, Harasymowicz has lived in London since 1998 and is currently based on the East Kent Coast.