Studio visit: Sława Harasymowicz

Sława Harasymowicz's practice deploys a diverse range of media to unpack the relationships between text and meaning, word and context, art and language, (lack of) image and imagination. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London (MA Communication Art and Design, 2006) and is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Her selected recent (2016-2018) solo projects include, Jest już dzień jasny (Ordre de bataille) BWA Gallery in Tarnów, Poland (2018), supported by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage; 12/6, presented as part of The Trouble with Value, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland (2018); The Spring to Come, The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London (2016/17); Radio On, narrative projects, London (2016), supported by the Arts Council England. Sława's solo exhibition at the Freud Museum, London, followed the publication of her graphic novel adaptation of Sigmund Freud's Wolf Man (Self Made Hero, 2012). Her work for the Guardian and Penguin Books won the V&A Illustration Awards and she is also The Arts Foundation Fellow. Sława is currently based in Ramsgate.