"Mirror of the Clear Water. The Primeval Landscape", from the Light series, handwoven abstract landscape, linen yarn, organic cotton, acrylic, linen cloth, gold leaves, 80 x 60 cm, 2025.
This artwork also works as a diptych with another artwork on my list: with "The Beacon", from the Light series, See last photo
This work are a symbiosis of two disciplines of art, Painting and Weaving. Handwoven Canvas is entirely constructed on a weaving loom using a painting technique of glazing - applying semi-transparent layers of textile on each other' Inspiration is the colour perspective which exists in nature and the line of the horizon – border of the space visible to the eye and the one hidden by the ground.
Marta Pokojowczyk's inspiration for the production of fabrics is the color perspective in nature and the horizon line - the limit of the apparent contact between the sky and the surface of the earth.
Marta Pokojowczyk born in 1985 in Wrocław, Poland, graduated Art History at the University of Wroclaw and Painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design in Wroclaw. In 2014/2015 attended a transboundary program Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs in 'Helena Loermans Handwoven Textiles’ Atelier in Odemira, Portugal. Entering the discipline of weaving is the crucial point in artist’s practice which let the author to deepen the issue of the canvas as a groundwork (basis for painting). Designing 3-dimensional textile objects which interweave fine and applied arts is a transposition of the artpiece from a sphere of a pure view directly into the human environment. In 2017 Marta set up Interweave Studio - Atelier where art interlaces with craft and humanities. She is artistically connected with Wroclaw, Suprasl (Podlaskie Voivodeship) and Odemira. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (2019).
Exhibitions and Awards:
2021 Towards Spaces (individual exhibition), Libra Auction House, Warsaw
2020 The Offensive of the Weaves, Weaving Festival (group exhibition), PIK Bialystok, Poland
2020 Weaving 3D (individual exhibition), PIK Bialystok
2019 Venice Design Week (group exhibition), Art Studio Larkina, Venice, Italy
2019 Humanism of fabrics (individual exhibition), Gdynia Design Days, Gdynia, Poland
2019 Halftone (individual exhibition), Pracownia Duży Pokój, Warsaw, Poland
2018 awarded in Biennale Tkan Art, Center of Art and Culture, Skierniewice, Poland
2018 EUNIQUE - fair for design unique objects, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 The First Layer, exhibition of the project 'Handwoven Canvas', Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines, Portugal
2017 Designer's Open Festival (19th—22nd of October), Leipzig, Germany
2016 What has happened since El Greco came to Odemira?, presentation of mantelillo veneziano canvases and interferences in Helena Loermans Handwoven Textiles Atelier, symposium Ignorância & Esquecimento, Odemira, Portugal
2016 Wroclove Design Festival (18th—22nd of May), Aleja Bielany, Wroclaw, Poland
2015 Stories of Canvas Weavers (individual exhibition), Agora Cultural Center, Wroclaw
2013 Timeless (individual exhibition), Galeria na Psiaku, Wroclaw
2013 The Possibility of an Island (individual diploma exhibition), Studio BWA, Wroclaw
2013 awarded in the Printmaking competition, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw
2012 Apoptozis (group exhibition), Studio BWA, Wroclaw, curator Magdalena Zięba-Grodzka
2011 The Lodgers (group exhibition), Agora Cultural Center, Wroclaw, curator Magdalena Zięba-Grodzka
2010 awarded in the illustration competition for an edition of Brian Patten’s book Jumping Mouse, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw
