Iwona Abrams
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Area
School of Arts & Humanities
Role
Visiting Lecturer
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In my work, I focus on exploring new territories through commitment to cross-disciplinary practices.
There are two predominant directions in my work; one proceeds from the rational application of systems and structural rigour, while its opposite emphasises the process of making and the free investigation of materials. Despite their differences, both directions have a basis in reality and correspond roughly with the worlds of physics and biology. My preoccupation with space, time, body, intimate chemical reactions, internal organs, matter and energy is abstracted through the use of drawing and unique print techniques. Forces and energies are directly transcribed onto the surfaces through processes ranging from printing with blocks of ice, to pouring solvents while screen-printing. In its extreme, the physical and biological are combined in plasma-like fluid forms.
Investigation of reality is, for me, inseparable from experimenting with the processes of making, and vice versa, the experimentation with different processes is itself a proposition on the structure of the world around me.
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Biography
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Iwona Abrams studied at the Royal College of Art (MA in Communication Art and Design), Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design and the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in Poland (MA in Fine Art Printmaking). In 2003 and 2006 she was a prizewinner at the International Krakow Printmaking Triennial, Poland.
Show moreIwona Abrams has lectured in British art and design colleges since 1999, including: The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, London College of Communication and Kent Institute of Art and Design. Since 2002 she has been a Visiting Tutor at the RCA’s Drawing Studio and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster.
Iwona Abrams has exhibited throughout the world. Most recently she shown her work in Dalarnas Museum in Sweden, the Museum of Photography in Seoul, Korea and in the Kunstlerhaus Gallery in Vienna, Austria.
She has taken an active part in international conferences, including the 2nd Impact International Print Conference in Helsinki.