I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging.
Artist Statement
My work begins with the experience of living ‘in between’ places – between Poland and Australia, between family history and lived memory, and between what I remember and what disappeared from my memory.
I grew up in rural Poland, in a family where giving back to the community has been part of our DNA for generations. That sense of belonging, generosity and shared responsibility continues to shape my artistic practice, particularly my interest in the stories, histories and connections that bring people together.
I am interested in what we carry with us across distance and generations. Family photographs, memory of landscape, domestic objects and fragments of personal history are ways of exploring migration, memory, loss and the continual reconstruction of identity.
Photography allows me to return to things that can no longer be physically reached. I work across analogue and digital photography, cyanotype, textiles and installation, using personal archival photographs and found materials. Through processes of layering, repetition, concealment and reconstruction, I consider how images can retain the memory of people and places while also revealing the gaps, distortions and absences within memory.
At the centre of my work is a question I continue to return to: how do the people, places and histories we leave behind continue to shape who we become?