Kasia Garapich

Overview
Kasia Garapich
“My work emphasises our inseparable connection with the animal world.” - Kasia Garapich
Kasia Garapich works across various media including sculpture, performative gestures and video, site specific installations and drawing. She finds inspiration in situations or objects that are bizarre, or out of place - most recently in spoken family legacies and personal mythologies. Her work often addresses her own anxieties related to the wider world - social expectations, womanhood, and failure, using animal representation as a metaphor for the human condition. 
 
Garapich’s recent body of work is inspired by a fantastical story about her great-grandmother, who, faced with great danger during the Russian Revolution, was said to have turned herself and her family into a sleuth of bears. Through casting her own feet and the claws of a brown bear in bronze, Garapich situates her practice within an ecological framework, exploring the space between what is dead and alive, between the human and non-human and our place within the natural systems to which we belong.
Biography
Kasia Garapich

Kasia Garapich lives and works in London. She completed an MA in History of Art at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow (1999), a BA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art (2010) and an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art (2012). Her PhD at the Slade School of Art was completed in 2023. She has presented solo and duo exhibitions at the Center for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor CRICOTEKA, Kraków, Poland (2023); Galleria Skala Ponzań, Poland (2023); Watermans Art Centre, London (2023); Goethe Institute, Kraków, Poland (2022); Wladyslaw Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum Zakopane, Poland (2022) among others.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions by institutions and galleries across the UK and internationally, including: APT Gallery, London (2023); Octagon Gallery, London (2022); UCL Art Museum, London (2022); University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland (2022); Freud Museum, London (2020); Centrala Gallery, Birmingham (2020); Mathare Art Gallery, Pamoja Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya (2019); Coniston Institute, Cumbria (2015); Science Gallery, London (2015); Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (2011); 

In 2022, she was awarded the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for Student Entry, and received the Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary from the Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL between 2019 and 2022. She has undertaken multiple residencies including at Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire (2019); Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland (2019); Henrietta Barnett School, London (2013-14); Artist Re-Orientation Residency, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria (2013) and Merz Barn, Cumbria (2011).

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