bio

Wysakowska / Walters – born in 1974, Gdynia. Lives and works in Kraków, Poland.

Wysakowska / Walters started her artist training by accomplishing first an NCFE Intermediate Certificate in Video Production at Plymouth College of Art & Design. After that, she obtained BFA in Graphics & Audiovisual Communication from Fine Arts Faculty of AHE in Łódź, Poland. She continued her studies at the University of Arts in Poznań, where she earned MFA with distinction in Intermedia in 2011. After a period of extensive research, in 2022, she was awarded PhD in Fine Arts from the same university.

Currently, Wysakowska / Walters holds a teaching & research position at The Faculty of Intermedia of The Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland.

Before pursuing fine arts education, Wysakowska / Walters gained BA in English from Gdańsk University, Poland. Next, went on to study Applied Linguistics at University of Warsaw. After two years of studying, she dropped it to pursue instead the degree of Master of Education by Advanced Study in Education from Exeter University in Britain. She received the degree in 2005.

As an artist, she premiered with two works in 2007 during a group exhibition entitled Ein Jahr, 79 Positionen, 28 räume at Art Museum Modern Art Hünfeld in Germany. The show curated Gerard Jürgen Blum Kwiatkowski. Since then, she has been developing her path by presenting works locally in Poland and internationally.

Some of her most notable achievements include: participation in Meditation Biennale and Poznań Design Festival, both in Poznań, Poland; presenting her works at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela; European Art Media Festival in Osnabrück, Germany; 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia; Fórum Eugénio de Almeida Évora, Portugal; having her work in the collection of Museo Caja Granada Memoria de Andalucia in Spain; Unesco A.poRT, Incheon in Korea, presenting her work at Sapienza The University of Rome, at Simultan Festival in Timisoara, Romania; and Apexart in NY, USA.

An extensive case-study of her approach to art making and silence can be found in The Ethics of Silence – an interdisciplinary case analysis approach by Nancy Billas & Sivaram Vemuri (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, see chapter 9: Visible Silence entirely dedicated to the work of the artist > click here to read an overview on springer.com ).

Wysakowska / Walters has given her papers at various conferences including Mansfield College, Oxford University or Lancaster University, UK. Her latest one : Focused and Diffused Thinking: The Quest for the perfect dance between the two was written for 1st International Conference entitled Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts organised by The Doctoral School of ASP E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland.

As an artist-teacher, she explores alternative artist pedagogies. Alongside her regular classes at The Academy, Wysakowska / Walters also organises workshops and training sessions for Polish and international art students. Her most recent one > Method meets Intuition offered practical and scientific knowledge on how to use such intuitive modes as felt sense, hunches, awes, hypnagogia in day to day artistic practice. It also explored Gary Klein’s Triple Path Model of Insight. The course was done within the framework of Erasmus + Blended Intensive Programmes.