Iwona Jurkiewicz
NR2 (from the Kitaki series)
reduction ceramic (raku firing) glazed, 2025.
Dimensions 44x23 cm width of base 12 cm
Signatures on the back of the work and on the bottom of the work.
Born in 1983 in Zamosc, Poland. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Diploma in 2009 in the studio of Prof. Slawoj Ostrowski, with a specialization in artistic ceramics in the studio of Prof. Teresa Klaman. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, plein-air events and competitions in Poland and abroad. Her recent works include the KITAKI series, which includes a small army of grotesque-animal ceramic figurines: "KITAKI ARMY", as well as "GOLD BOY", "KITAKI BOYS", "KITAKI WATCHERS". The works are inspired by the artist's cats, two albino brothers, whose adventures and behavior the sculptor transfers to the plane of art, transforming them, through which she creates her own grotesque and fabulous legend.
