About

Sława Harasymowicz is an artist currently based on the East Kent coast. Her practice is largely narrative-driven and she works with drawing, moving image, different photographic and print techniques, writing and sound. Her projects are often site-responsive, sequential and episodic.

She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London. Originally from Kraków, Poland, Harasymowicz is an alumna of the Royal College of Art London (MA Communication Art and Design, 2006) and the Jagiellonian University Kraków where she completed an MA in English Philology and Literature. She had solo exhibitions at The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre, London, The Freud Museum, London, The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, BWA Gallery Tarnów, Poland and others. Important group shows include  The Trouble with Value at Bunkier Gallery of Contemporary Art Kraków (2018). 

Awards include V&A Museum Illustration Awards, the Arts Foundation Fellowship, and artistic scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the field of visual art. Her work has been supported by Arts Council England on multiple occasions, and she is also a recipient of Developing Your Practice grant (2022).

Her works on paper are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Prints and Drawings collection. Her graphic novel adaptation of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Wolf Man’ (2012) was critically recognised as unconventional and the first of its kind.