Image by Jennifer Richard
Education
*MAEd Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Seattle University, Seattle, WA (2026)
* Certificate in the Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London (2023)
* MFA Experimental Film, Kingston University, London (2016)
* PhD Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2013)
* MA Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2009)
* BA (Hons) Visual Theories, University of East London (2007)
* BA Art History, University of Wroclaw (Poland) and The Open University London (2006)
Artist Bio
I am a Polish-born artist based between London and Seattle. I work across film, performance, movement, and hybrid nonfiction. Through improvisation and collaboration, I explore what exceeds language: gesture, sensation, and the body’s capacity to carry experience across generations.
My work approaches memory, ancestry, and womanhood as sites of inheritance, resistance, and transformation. Informed by my therapeutic training, I understand the body as both archive and threshold - a place where experience is held, negotiated, and reimagined. Through intimate, hybrid forms, I create encounters with vulnerability not as exposure, but as a means of connection, reflection, and repair.
My recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival (June 2025), the Best Immigrant Story Ledo Matteoli Award at the 59th Humboldt International Film Festival (May 2026) and Curator Award at Kinoskop (June 2026). Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023) premiered at the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and received the 2024 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Practice Research Award and the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival (2024). My films have been shown in over 26 countries and at over 100 film festivals, galleries and art venues (Slamdance, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Videoex, BFI London Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Kings College, University of Boulder, CO).
I am also the Founder and Director of Own Story - a trauma informed therapy and expressive arts practice, where healing and creativity belong in the same room.