Sława Harasymowicz

Sława Harasymowicz is a visual artist. She works across a diverse range of media including print, writing, moving image and lens-based media with drawing central to her practice. 

While Sława’s practice largely focuses on the possibilities of narrative, her point of departure is often ‘archive’, as a strategy and a cognitive tool to pose questions around the validity of recollection, the ambiguity of reconstruction, political representation and autobiography. Alumna of the Royal College of Art London and The Jagiellonian University Kraków, she is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London.

Sława’s recent work includes exhibition and publication in collaboration with The Foundation of Archaeology of Photography and Social Centre for Photography Warsaw (2020-2021). In parallel, she has been developing a multi-stage project dealing with the notion of ‘home’ supported by ACE Grants for the Arts 2019. She was twice a recipient of artistic scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the field of Visual Arts (for the 2016 and 2020) and is also The Arts Foundation Fellow as well as a double winner in the V&A Illustration Awards. Her work in progress continues to build on her body of research around the last days of WWII and will include film scheduled to be realised in Hamburg, Germany (2021) supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute.  

Sława has exhibited in the UK and internationally including Freud Museum London, Bunkier Gallery Kraków, Poland, The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre London, and Turner Contemporary Margate, among others. Author of award-winning illustrations for Penguin Books and The Guardian S?awa has also published with Le Gun, Modern Poetry in Translation, Folio and Laurence King. She is the author of graphic novel adaptation of Sigmund Freud's Wolf Man (Self-Made Hero, London).