Gosia Wlodarczak is a Polish artist who now works and lives in Melbourne, Australia. ‘Gosia Wlodarczak’s cross-disciplinary drawing practice has extended into performance, installation, sound and film. Her work is motivated by a fascination with the mind’s relationship with the outside world conducted through the senses. Using only what she sees around her, she uses the drawn line as a materialisation of being present in the world and in a moment. She works in private and public spaces rather than an artist’s studio, interacting with the stimuli of the outside world and ordinary life, translating her ‘living energy into the drawn line’. She has been exhibiting her work since the 1980s with her most recent solo exhibit being A Room of Facial Deconstruction, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane (2018).
Wlodarczak does not produce her artwork at home or in a studio. Instead she does them in real time at the exhibition. The artists’ explorations into video document and expand her multi-discipline practice. The core of her work is drawing, using surfaces such as walls, floors or even set dinner tables as live environments in which to draw “in the moment”. I plan to experiment with the techniques that this artist uses in my own work. I have already began working a blog post on recreating archive photos of Jersey using the methods that Gosia uses. I intend on using a piece of acetate and tracing over 2 different photos with a white pen to create the same effect she has, and then create some layers over the top and then experiment with that.
Gosia Wlodarczak
‘I draw my environment as I see it, in real time – tracing and re-tracing the visible. I only draw what I see. Seeing, the act of drawing and the drawing itself are evidence not only that I exist, but also that I exist in the present moment. I never draw from imagination. The immaterial (energy and time) are converted into the material (pigment forms line). Every single glance produces a drawn shape. Every drawn shape both embodies and documents corporeal existence.’