Irena Czapska - Know who you are - wake up,
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Edition of 3
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £135.00.
Irena Czapska’s work is an ongoing investigation of self-image which explores connecting strands through body identity and how displacement reveals itself. The work is personal and unconditionally subjective with a circular narrative where ideas are constantly revisited and reworked.
A low-key sub text hums through the works which implicitly addresses familial loss of identity, memory and displacement. Expressed through bodies, dresses and portraiture as ciphers the work explores uncertainties and overarching existential fears of who we are, in this world and where we are placed.
Screen-printing is Czapska’s weapon of choice, and she experiments with it at every stage of the process. For many years, she has been using fast rusting iron powder on steel sheets & steel meshes where seemingly harsh materials can be used to express powerful emotions in the most elusive way.
Czapska is currently working on a portraiture series of prints on large sheets of steel.
The work showing here is a cumulation of constructions of printed dresses made into real dresses, photographed and made into stencils again and printed. The stencils have been made into dresses too and then remodelled back into print works.
MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking
Post Graduate Diploma Printmaking
Basic Skills Teaching Certificate
BA Hons Humanities
Tutor in intermediate, advanced and experimental screenprinting.
Work in Private collections, UK and abroad.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Edition of 3
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £135.00.
Irena Czapska’s work is an ongoing investigation of self-image which explores connecting strands through body identity and how displacement reveals itself. The work is personal and unconditionally subjective with a circular narrative where ideas are constantly revisited and reworked.
A low-key sub text hums through the works which implicitly addresses familial loss of identity, memory and displacement. Expressed through bodies, dresses and portraiture as ciphers the work explores uncertainties and overarching existential fears of who we are, in this world and where we are placed.
Screen-printing is Czapska’s weapon of choice, and she experiments with it at every stage of the process. For many years, she has been using fast rusting iron powder on steel sheets & steel meshes where seemingly harsh materials can be used to express powerful emotions in the most elusive way.
Czapska is currently working on a portraiture series of prints on large sheets of steel.
The work showing here is a cumulation of constructions of printed dresses made into real dresses, photographed and made into stencils again and printed. The stencils have been made into dresses too and then remodelled back into print works.
MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking
Post Graduate Diploma Printmaking
Basic Skills Teaching Certificate
BA Hons Humanities
Tutor in intermediate, advanced and experimental screenprinting.
Work in Private collections, UK and abroad.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Image Dimensions: 76 x 112 cm
Edition of 3
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £135.00.
Irena Czapska’s work is an ongoing investigation of self-image which explores connecting strands through body identity and how displacement reveals itself. The work is personal and unconditionally subjective with a circular narrative where ideas are constantly revisited and reworked.
A low-key sub text hums through the works which implicitly addresses familial loss of identity, memory and displacement. Expressed through bodies, dresses and portraiture as ciphers the work explores uncertainties and overarching existential fears of who we are, in this world and where we are placed.
Screen-printing is Czapska’s weapon of choice, and she experiments with it at every stage of the process. For many years, she has been using fast rusting iron powder on steel sheets & steel meshes where seemingly harsh materials can be used to express powerful emotions in the most elusive way.
Czapska is currently working on a portraiture series of prints on large sheets of steel.
The work showing here is a cumulation of constructions of printed dresses made into real dresses, photographed and made into stencils again and printed. The stencils have been made into dresses too and then remodelled back into print works.
MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking
Post Graduate Diploma Printmaking
Basic Skills Teaching Certificate
BA Hons Humanities
Tutor in intermediate, advanced and experimental screenprinting.
Work in Private collections, UK and abroad.
