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biography

Katarzyna Sekulska was born 14 th of September in 1991 in Rybnik, Poland. She graduated from Silesian University in Katowice, Art Department in Cieszyn. Her MA projects got the first. One form two parts - printmaking has been designed in professor Joanna Piech-Kalarus`s calss and the second part – book designed in profesor Sebastian Kubica’s class.
In the years 2013 - 2015 was awarded in rector's scholarship for the best students. During the study engaged in social and artistic - cultural activities. She cooperates with the Museum of the Printing and Paper in Supraśl. She is interested in graphics, illustration, sewing, hiking, singing, social and cultural animation. She likes to work with children and to design for them.

Workshops:
July 2015 – Festival of tea, Cieszyn – poster`s workshops
May 2016 – Festival of Artbook for Children, Białystok – traditional technics of printing and making paper
May 2016 – Warsaw Book Fair, Warszawa – workshops of linocut
October 2016 – World Travel Show, Nadarzyn – workshops of linocut

Exhibitions:
2013
„Generations”,„Puda” Gallery, Czeski Tesin
„Generations”, Muzeum Ziemi Cieszyńskiej, Cieszyn
2014
„Conversations at the table”, Pałac Młodzieży, Katowice
„Polish Young Graphics”, Dniepropietrowsk
2015
„Theathre is alive” – Theathre Poster Exhibition on 6 International Festival „Circles of Art”, Silesian Theathre, Katowice
„Theathre is alive” – Theathre Poster Exhibition on 6 International Festival „Circles of Art”, Muflon Gallery, Ustroń
2016
Poster exhibition, Gallery „Galeria w Alei Fontann”, Szczecin

self-commentary

I wanted to move the flat textures on spacial forms and show the dynamic of graphics. Puppets set in motion reveals more and more different pieces drawing, creating effects unattainable in the plane. An important aspect of the work is also the fact that each set of linocuts created one individualized puppet.
The compositions are complement all the work. They show the basic forms which were built puppets. At the same time they create a new, separate objects. I used a basic feature of graphics – repeatability and the possibility of multiplication. With this feature each composition has gained a new character.

MA project includes 6 puppets. They are made of textiles printed in linocut technique and 14 printmakings on paper (860 x 610 mm) composed of the same elements as on the materials.
Puppets clothes and faces are printed in black and white patterns with some grey details. I used the thin materials and I get the transparency effect – the layers are overlapping. Compositions on the paper are made of elements of puppets clothes (in different configurations). There are irregular shapes and realistic forms of, for example, flowers and animals. Thanks to procedures such as multiplication or extract specific elements I obtained various compositions: geometric, organic, minimalist.