Swava Harasymowicz’s screenprints, distinctive in style, work as the artist’s own collection of ‘icons’. Evocative, as a series of works they allow the viewer to create their own links and connections.

The technique applied in the making of Harasymowicz’s work relates to her interest in the blurred lines between the real and the imagined. Each piece is hand printed by the artist, and the occasional mis-registration of layers is intentional, with colours also often varying slightly, making each piece within a limited edition unique.

The finished works are based on realistic drawings, which are then often cut up, and rebuild,…

Swava Harasymowicz’s screenprints, distinctive in style, work as the artist’s own collection of ‘icons’. Evocative, as a series of works they allow the viewer to create their own links and connections.

The technique applied in the making of Harasymowicz’s work relates to her interest in the blurred lines between the real and the imagined. Each piece is hand printed by the artist, and the occasional mis-registration of layers is intentional, with colours also often varying slightly, making each piece within a limited edition unique.

The finished works are based on realistic drawings, which are then often cut up, and rebuild, creating a slightly skewed real images, before finally ending up as screenprints.

Born in Krakow, Poland, Harasymowicz graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 with MA Visual Communication Art and Design. Since then her work appeared in Guardian Weekend Magazine on numerous occasions, she has also designed book covers incl. Penguin Books commissions, and film posters, exhibiting in China, Iran and Warsaw poster biennale. In 2008 she was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship, received from Sir Peter Blake.

Harasymowicz was recently invited by the Polish institute to be featured in an exhibition of photography and video showcasing 40 artists and creatives of Polish origin living in London, which is due to be on show at The Museum of London. She is also currently working on a graphic adaptaion of Freud’s Wolf Man case, scheduled to be published 2010 by Self Made Hero.

She currently lives and works in London.