Katarzyna Depta-Garapich
Katarzyna Depta-Garapich is a visual artist born in Kraków, Poland, living and working in London. Her practice takes a variety of forms including sculpture, drawing, performance and video. Graduate of the Sculpture Department of Wimbledon College of Art (BA 2010) and the Slade School of Fine Art in London (MA 2012) and Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1999). In her work, she often refers to themes taken from everyday life and her own surroundings, especially those that represent her own fears and anxieties related to femininity and social expectations. She is interested in the relationship between humans and non-humans. She is fascinated by the absurd and finds inspiration in situations, stories and objects that deviate from the norm. Katarzyna Depta-Garapich’s most recent exhibitions include: Claw, Kuns(z)t Gallery, Goethe Institut, Kraków (2022); You Ate Three Hundred Devils, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane (2022); Matter of the Anthropocene, Mathare Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya (2019) and Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2020); Simple Gestures, BWA, Katowice (2020); Melancholia, Freud Museum, London, UK (2020); Handiwork, Gallery Władysław Hasior, Zakopane (2019). She has participated in artistic residencies at the Tatra Museum, Poland (2019); Grymsdyke Farm, Buckingshire, UK (2019) and Grizedale Arts, Coniston, Lake District, UK (2014). In collaboration with Grizedale Arts, she facilitated the Polish edition of the House of Ferment, ArtBoom, Krakow (2015). In 2022 she won a prestigious drawing competition, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for student entry (2022).