magda.moonsavage
Magdalena Koscianska, Polish visual artist and designer, illustrator and art educator born in 1986 in Zielona Gora. Currently lives and works in Wroclaw. She started her professional creative work between art high school and art studies. Since then, she has worked mainly in the field of graphic design, art/visual education and illustration. For many domestic and foreign clients, she has designed various types of graphic materials, from branding elements, packaging and patterns to posters or animations. As an educator, she has prepared and led workshops in cooperation with numerous Polish institutions, including galleries, cultural centres and theaters. She was also a curator of exhibitions, an author of texts related to culture and a creator of wearable art.
Recently, she has decided to focus mainly on visual arts and her own artistic projects. Her interests have focused mainly on drawing and painting (both analog and digital), photographic and mixed media projects and creating art objects – full of organic forms and elements of imaginary landscapes. In her painting projects she also experiments with second-hand and deadstock fabrics.
About my works
In my personal, illustrative works, I have touched upon areas such as the relation with yourself and with others, or women's rights and their situation in Poland. I'm the author of the poster and slogan Myślę, czuję, decyduję – "I think, I feel, I decide" which became one of the the most popular protest slogans of Women's Marches in Poland. I have also created drawings and illustrations symbolically showing the connections between technology, nature and human functioning in the modern world. Previously, people appeared mainly in my works, today I create on the border of abstraction and invented worlds, full of organic forms. These forms are not an "addition" or background for the characters, as they were before. Now they become the leitmotif of the whole; they take control and encompass whatever appears in their surrounding. Other beings, if present, blend into space, enter into a relationship with it. Their temporary presence reminds us that we are elements of a larger puzzle. They co-create this "organism", drawing from it and feeding it. The symbolism, however, remains similar to that in my older illustrative work. Sometimes dark and slightly disturbing, and sometimes soft, lasting in blissful symbiosis – the shapes reflect the intricacy of relationships, the mutual influence on each other, the complexity of bonds and emotions.
magda.moonsavage@gmail.com