Placard making workshop at Queer and Now Festival 2023 at Tate Britain by ANKA D in London
Placard making workshop at Queer and Now Festival 2023 at Tate Britain
Placard Not Placate
At a time when queer rights are under attack, it's time to fight back! Make your mark with artist Anka Dabrowska in this stencilling placard workshop using found urban materials.
This event is part of Queer and Now, a festival dedicated to the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ art and culture in the UK.
I am a London based visual artist working in drawing, illustration, sculpture, mural and installation art. I work with archival inks, spray paint, watercolour, paint, pencil, found objects and found materials.
My practice is rooted in drawing and the forming of numerous representations of urban environments. I also create sculptures and installations from found materials as extensions of ideas that inform my two dimensional based pieces. My works are born out of extensive research that I undertake in a given city, town, place, space. By mapping those through intense research projects I collect hidden traces, stories, public and private histories . My interest is in brutalist architecture, territories both real and imagined, my own memories of growing up in Warsaw, universal memories, stories of a given place, transformation and regeneration.
2022 I was commissioned a portrait drawing for the Beacon Collection at Brighton’s Soho House. I collaborated with artist Hannah Dickins on a mural for Tonkotsu restaurant in Walthamstow, London. I designed and delivered four art workshops for sixth form students at London's LGBTQ+ centre the QUEERCIRCLE.
2021 I completed ‘A Place In-Between’ artist residency and exhibition in Margate funded by the Arts Council Lottery Fund. A four months residency at the Margate School, and exhibition at the Old Primark building in Margate.
2019 I curated a group exhibition ‘CITYISLAND’ at the Silver Building, London.
I was commissioned 192 drawings for The Hoxton collection in London.
I completed 45 illustrations for ‘Eat What You Saw’ book by Alys Fowler, Kyle Books.
My artwork "You Will Never Sleep Again" is featured in ‘The Word is Art’ book, Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson.
My work has been reviewed in Artlyst 2021, MU 2022 and Salvage magazine 2022.
2010-2013 I successfully delivered three solo exhibitions: ’Welcome to Paradise III’ Fundacja Sztuczna, Warsaw, Poland.
‘Welcome to Paradise II’, Crima’rt Gallery, Milan (Funded by the British Council Travel Grant).
‘Welcome to Paradise I’, PayneShurvell Gallery, London (Supported by The Polish Cultural Institute).
2012-2013 I completed an artist in residency and arts commission for the Vital Arts, The Royal London Hospital.
More artwork by Anka
UNTAMED
Arlington House 1
Poppy
Peony
Sea Holly
A Place In-Between
Sound Mirrors no5
Bluebelle Staffy
Sea scape no5
Hoyden
Concrete Slide
Legia Kiosk no1
Shelter
Dyke Joy
Sound Mirrors no1
Arlington House no 2
HER & I
Grasshopper
Bluebelle
Bear
Workshops at the QUEERCIRCLE London 2022
Workshops at the QUEERCIRCLE
Workshops at the QUEERCIRCLE
Workshops at the QUEERCIRCLE
Workshops at the QUEERCIRCLE
Hope and Glory
Fantasy
Hamburger
Metalica
TONKOTSU restaurant mural
Heart and Soul in Every Bowl
Heart and Soul in Every Bowl
Heart and Soul in Every Bowl
Placard making workshop Queer and Now Festival 2023 at Tate Britain
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