Adam Czech

The author is looking for connections between the graphic technique and new printing solutions, their mutual correlations.

Graphic experiments together with the use of printing technologies trigger cognitive desire, allow for experience, creating methods that contribute to the enrichment of the workshop.

Graphic materials and technologies used in the field of printing become, as a consequence, the basis for the creation of original graphic works. Thread of creative artistic search, visual research is related to the issue of meeting: with selected, meaningful places: close, known or just being met. Searching for values, anchored in specific places - architecture, landscape - is one of the possible paths of artistic journeys. Meetings with other people, places, spaces make Mind maps. The memories captured in the frames convince about the importance of spatial quality in the surrounding.

„Streetwalkers”, 56 x 77 cm, algrafia

„S algrafia treetwalkers in the VIRES, 88,5 x 66 cm, „Calligraphic streetwalker”, 56 x 77 cm, algrafia

Tomasz Chudzik. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Faculty of Graphics in Katowice).

Since 1993 teacher at the Faculty of Arts at the UJD in Czêstochowa. In 2007 he obtained the degree of doctor habilitated (ASP Katowice). In 2021 he was nominated as a professor. He is the head of the Department of Graphic Arts at the UJD. He practices workshop graphics and drawing. Author of 30 individual exhibitions.

He has participated in about 250 group exhibitions. He received awards and distinctions. In the evaluation he received category A.

2018 - 10th Polish Print Triennial in Katowice.

2019 -7th International Print Biennal, Guanlan, China; work in the collection.

2023 - 2nd prize at the Arte Grafica Italiana2022 competition.

Works in the field of graphics and drawing. The subject matter concerns the phenomenon of spatiality, fascination with nature, observation and analysis of the coexistence of art and science. The inspiration is also the way of writing the graphic language of your favorite thematic area: landscape. The carrier of artistic transformations is the play of light and shadow on the surface of the water, this fleeting record of the world around us. His realism is more and more often shaped in an abstract formula. These borderlands constitute the image and artistic form of the last cycles.

„Subiective area”, object I, 50 x 80 cm, gravure printing, drawing

„Subiective area”, object II, 50 x 80 cm, gravure printing, drawing

Hanna Grzonka-Karwacka.

In year 1999 she graduated from the University of Silesia, Institute of Art from Professor Krystyna Filipowska’s class in graphic art and from Anna Kowalczyk-Klus’ class in drawing. Since 2005 she has worked at the Art Institute in Cieszyn, in the Department of Drawing, where she runs the Drawing Studio. In 2009 she received her Ph.D in Fine Art. In 2019 She has been granted the title of associate professor.

She is interested in printmaking, drawing and animation. Her works were presented at several individual exhibitions and many collective ones in Poland and abroad. In her recent series she is mainly interested in the concept of a memory trace- engram, which despite having been created many times in childhood, did not fade, degrade or become deformed. Her works refer to identity, memory and traces.

I am primarily interested in a memory trace - engram, which, despite the fact that it was created in childhood, has not passed away, has not been degraded and has not succumbed to distortion.

My recent works refer to autobiographical memory, and its traces are images of my personal relationship with the past.

I realized that the recorded images and experiences from my childhood helped me understand and tame situations in adulthood.

„Demon II”, 17,5 x 17,5 cm, digital print

„Demon III”, 17,5 x 17,5 cm, digital print

„Travellers”, 70 x 100 cm, linocut

Janina Kotyœ-Kublicka, was born in October 23rd, 1942, in Kocilew near Wieluñ. She graduated with honors in workshop graphics in 1960. Since 1960 onwards, she was employed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznañ (currently UAP). She worked as an assistant to prof. Lucjan Mianowski in lithography and as an assistant to prof. Zbigniew Lutomski in woodcut. She later became the head of the 2nd Drawing Studio with the title of adjunct professor. Kotyœ-Kublicka created workshop graphics usingmetal techniques and lithography. She was a threetime scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art and received a 3rd-degree award from the Minister of Culture and Art for her educational achievements.

Janina Kotyœ-Kublicka has made several national and international exhibitions, including Norway, Mexico, Liege, Brno, Bologna, Park Essen, Darmstadt, and Poland.

Janina Kotyœ-Kublicka’s artistic work has remained remarkably consistent andcohesive since the 1960s. It emerges from the fears and anxieties of thecontemporary world. The artist has consistently pursued the exploration of threats to the modern human condition, devoid of heroism and stripped of pathos. She has revealed the state of humanity in contemporary times, with an ancient value reminiscent of the futile efforts of Tantalus and Sisyphus.

„Dissonance”, 29,7 x 49,7 cm, metal, combined technique

„Meadows I”, 32,4 x 49,8 cm, metal, combined technique

„Contemplations”, 32,4 x 49,8 cm, metal, combined technique

Kamila is a Graphic Designer with a PhD from the University of Silesia in Poland and First Class Honours Degree in MA Design LAB from Manchester School of Art. Kamila is currently a Marketing Director at UAP Ltd and she is a member of Hot Bed Press in Salford, Manchester.

Her primary focus is communicating complex subject matter in visually effective ways.

Kamila is particularly interested in letterpress, poster design, typography and graphic design for various publications. Her posters have received a distinction by the Taipei International Design Awards and has been shortlisted for exhibit at Shenzhen Guan Shanyue Art Museum, and Moscow Museum in Russia with her Typography Posters.

She has published 3 books; ‘British Stuff,’ the first edition in 2013, the second in 2016 and illustrated children’s book in 2018.

Kamila is showcasing a typographic posters and art installation. Typography on the streets of Manchester shows the city’s industrial history and its various intertwining cultures. Artist asked what people think about Manchester, and more precisely, If they could describe Manchester in a one word, what would it be? As a result Kamila created a series of posters inspired by the Typography in the city. Next based on the designed posters she created the art installation. Installation consists of ten fabric prints, printed on a sheer fabric. Thanks to the transparent properties of the material used a new image quality is obtained. Multi-layered installation is associated with the dynamics of the city in the context of its typography. The city can give you a visual pleasure. The typosphere of the city is constantly changing. The lively character of the city inspired the creation of the installation City Type.

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Graphic Arts Department in Katowice. Master's degree in art in 2001, main diploma in the Department of Graphic Arts and additional one in painting. Works with painting, printmaking and graphic design, ceramics. She is an art teacher working with children and young people. She has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad, 12.2022-02.2023 individual painting exhibition at the Galeria Intymna, Dom Oœwiatowy Biblioteki Œl¹skiej in Katowice.