Martha MULAWA (1973), VICTORY OF THE GREAT; 2023

polymer, on wooden base with metal elements; 176 x 35 x 15 cm
Ed: 1/1
Signed at bottom: Mulawa '23 1/1

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Industrial Forms. Scholarship holder
at Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze and l'École des beaux-arts de Toulouse. A Krakow-based artist, she grew out of her Puławy roots and is in love with the Tatra Mountains. She creates mainly sculptures and installations, as well as batik paintings. Winner of many design competitions. In her art projects she combines sculpture, installations, batik or painting with music, mapping, light and dance. She is usually inspired by deeply and multi-levelly felt nature, which can be seen in most of her sculptures, paintings and design projects. She is eager to share creative emotions, stimulating the viewer's creativity. She has presented her works in more than sixty solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Botanical Garden of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her works can be found in private and institutional collections.

The sculpture on display depicts a female profile with added casts of a giant gunnera leaf on one side, and the underside of a floating Royal Victoria leaf on the other, both from the Botanical Garden of Jagiellonian University.
My works aim to draw man's attention to nature, to show how beautiful and rich it is. I want man to fall in love with it anew. He learned to see how powerful forces are in her, those destructive and those that build. We should respect the forces of nature and learn to coexist again in harmonious symbiosis.
Martha Mulawa