Izabel Wocial
My artwork focuses on the tensions and interrelationships between human society and urban space, I try to communicate these issues using objects and their relationships in order to highlight how space influences human behaviour and life experiences. This has been expressed by using the constraints and opportunities of the studio space to explore the relationship of materials to each other, and the space of the studio, as a parallel experience to real life experience.
My site responsive practice explores architectural spaces through the process of expanded drawing, in particular sculptural drawing. Defining my practice as sculptural drawing was inspired by Rosalind Krauss’s essay (1979) “Sculpture in the expanded field.” The concept of the expanded field
is demonstrated throughout my practice through the transitioning between two-dimensional and three-dimensional challenging the boundaries of hat drawing is by using space, line, materials, form and process to produce sculptural drawings.
The investigation of the architectural space in which the work made runs parallel to the material process of the work. Material investigation has taken the form of transforming and manipulating lo-fi materials including; tarpaulin, various plastics, scrap wood and scrap metal rods. Playing with the physical properties of the materials result in my work being in a constant state of evolution. The use of ad-hoc techniques, indicate that my work is unplanned and improvised when responding to the space, emphasising that my work is a process of thinking through making.
Education
2017 - 2020
Fine Art at Leeds Art University
2016 - 2017
Art and Design Foundation at University for the Creative Arts, Epsom
Exhibitions
Group
2019
2018
Release, Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Goose, Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Online Residencies
25th- 27th May, 2020
Lighthouse.Collab