Education
- MRes, School of Education and Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, UK. 01.2023-01.2024 Research subject: “Using a Creative Space to Engage Young People: Investigating the Feasibility of Using Professional Theatre to Enhance Personal Resilience in Children and Young People.”
- MA Art Interdisciplinary Practice, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, UK 09. 2021-09.2023 Research subject: “Dreams in Slavic Cultures”
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Glyndwr University, UK 09.2016 – 08.2017 Research subject: “Is outdoor learning and experimental education an answer to better creativity and stress relief in HE students?”
- M.A in Illustration, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, UK 10.2010- 09.2011 Research subject: “Etnodesign” analysis of a design trend. M.A artwork: “Slavic Tales” photorealistic and traditional illustrations for Slavic mythology.
- M.A Glass Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland 10.2004 – 10.2009 Desideration and research subject: “Street Art Phenomenon, analysis of the art movement on selected works”. M.A artwork: Glass Industrial Design: “Eggy” Breakfast set of 7 pieces including plates, small cereal or fruits bowl, glasses, butter container, juice bottle, salt and pepper containers. Artistic Glass: “Artistic Glass in a Public Space” sculpture made from black steel and fused glass rods and LED lights. Diploma Appendix: “Painting effects in Photography” painting and photography
Awards
Shanghai International Short Week, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film, Semi Finalist, Shanghai , 08.2024
23th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Professional Single Image Overall Winner
The Portrait Masters January 2024: Portrait 1st Place
The Portrait Masters June 2023: Creative Portrait 11th and 20th Place
The Portrait Masters January 2023: Abstract 12th Place
Atlantic Bridge Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film, Semi Finalist, Amsterdam, 05.2023
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film official selection, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 10.2023
Scarab Short Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Best Experimental Short Film, Dubai, 01.2023
WPE Second Half 2022 – Portrait Creative, one of the selected winners
WPE Second Half 2022, Photomanipulation, one of the selected winners
Top 10 Fashion Photographers 2022, OneEyeland, Rank 1 in the UK
Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2022, OneEyeland, Rank 3 in theUK.
Scarab Short Film Festival, Dubai, Experimental Short Film. official selection.
Roots, See.Me Exhibition 2022 – Honorable Mention
The Portrait Masters May 2022: Teen and Senior 2nd Place, Creative Portrait 5th, 12th,19th and 20th Place
Passion, See.Me Exhibition 2022 – top 10 Finalist (with images and short films)
The Portrait Masters Jan 22: Movement Category Winner
Last Trierenberg Super Circuit 2022: Award winner for “Colour Extasy” category
FAPA 21/22- Fine Art Photography Awards: – Fine Art Nominee
17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Professional Single Image Runner Up
17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Category Winner : Fine Art Single Image
17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Honorable Mention: Digital and Nude & Figure and Fine Art Series.
The Global Art Awards 2021 | The Finalist of the Photography category
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Finalist 2021 | INPRNT Photography Category
Siena Photography Awards 2021 Commended Image in the Creative Photo Awards
World`s Top 10 Fashion Photographers 2020, One Eyeland, Rank 4 in the World and Rank 1 in United Kingdom.
WPPI Second Half 2020, Third Place in the Creative Portrait Division
The Portrait Masters 2020, The “Creative Portrait” Category Winner.
One Eyeland World`s top 10 Fine Art Photographers,
WPPI First Half 2020, Second Place in the Creative Portrait Division
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2020, Digital Art Finalist
SIPA 2020, Siena International Photo Awards, commended image in Creative Portraiture.
The Portrait Masters 2020, The “Teens and Seniors” Category Winner.
The Frame, Samsung , Featrured Artist and the ATM finalist, Miami, 12.2019.
The Portrait Masters 2019, Top 20 Portrait Photographer in the “Teens and Seniors” Category.
Her Story 2019 Finalist, New York City, 03.2019
Professional Photographer of the Year 2012, 2nd in Black and White Category.
Scholarship for Artistic Developments, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw. years: 2009, 2008, 2007
Wszędzie Niebiesko, Wszędzie Zielono, International Artists Contest, Warsaw.2004
Selected PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS:
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Viridis Terrae, Muzeum Miejskie Dzierżoniowa, Dzierżoniów, Poland, 06.2024
- Dreamscapes, Insert Gallery, Wrexham, 01.2024
- Dreamscapes, 798 Art District, Beijin, China, 04.2024
- Cabinet of Curiosities, Tichauer Gallery, Tychy Poland, 12.2023
- Lux et Umbra, Goldenmark Gallery, Opole Poland, 01.2023
- Lux et Umbra, Goldenmark Gallery, Katowice Poland, 09.2022 (exhibition under the patronage and sponsorship of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and the President of the Sosnowiec City)
- London Dreamers, permanent art installation at the TOWER BRIDGE HOUSE London, 2020 Archetypy kobiet w połączeniu ze szkłem i fotografią, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, 09.2019
- Tales, Lot11, Wrexham, UK 06.2018 Jung’s Archetypen der Frau in Verbindung mit Glas und Fotografien, Minden, Germany. 03.2016
- Tales, 1260 Gallery, Booth Mansion, Chester. 12.2015 (exhibition with patronage and sponsorship of High Sheriff of Cheshire)
- Fragilita, Gallery Za Szkłem, ASP im.E.Gepperta, Wrocław. 11.2015
- Kobiecosci/Sensual, Muzeum Śleżańskie, Sobótka. 10.2014
- Gum Bichromate, The Art Gallery, Bootle, Liverpool, UK. 05.2013 Slavic Tales, Muza, Sosnowiec. 06.2012
- Slavic Tales, Manufaktura, Wrocław, Poland 01.2012
- Slavic Tales, wystawa fotografii, Platon, Florence, Italy 08.2011
- Perfect Woman, photography and painting exhibition, Art Café, Sosnowiec, 09.2009
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and Film Festivals
🎥 Shanghai International Short Week, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film, Semi Finalist, Shanghai , 08.2024
Kłącza Festival, Dreamers Screening and Viridis Terrae exhibition , Muzeum Miasta Dzierżoniów, Poland 06.2024
🎥 VENICE VIDEO FESTIVAL part of Venice Art Biennale 23, Dreamers Screening, Venice, Italy 05.2023
🎥 Atlantic Bridge Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film, Semi Finalist, Amsterdam, 05.2023
SIFA X : LOVE DIVINE Singapore Art Festival, 05.2023
🎥 Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Experimental Short Film official selection, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 10.2023
🎥 Scarab Short Film Festival, Dreamers Screening, Best Experimental Short Film, Dubai, 01.2023
🎥 The Cinema in the City, Dreamers Screening FACT Liverpool, UK. 07.2022
🎥 “PASSION” top 10 finalist, SeeMe, Gallery Azulejo, 54 Orchard Street, New York, 07.2022
Portraits Responding to Rembrandt, Part of National Portrait Gallery Masterpiece Tour, Oriel Davies, Wales, UK 2022
„Art Saves Humanity”, online exhibition, 05.2020
„S/he Persisted…”, top 10 finalist, SeeMe, NYC Armory week, Bandit Space, New York, 03.2020
Art Takes Miami, finalist, SeeMe, SCOPE Miami, Miami Beach, USA, 12.2019
Her Story, finalist, SeeMe, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City, USA 03.2019
Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring 2019, New York City, USA 03.2019
Domeville, Art Basel Grand Opening, Miami Dome, Miami, Fl, USA 12.2018
SeeMe takes Miami, SCOPE Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA 12.2018
Tales, Travel and Tolerance Photography Exhibition, Oriel, Glyndwr Wrexham 04.2016
Kobiecości, ASP Museum, Wrocław. 01.2016
Gloop for Helfa Gelf, Squash Court, Chirk Castle, UK. 09.2015
UndegUn, Helfa Gelf, Wrexham, UK. 09.2014
Gloop for Helfa Gelf, Squash Court, Chirk Castle, UK. 09.2014
Het Kleden Van De Naakten, Forma Aktua | Pinakotheek, Groningen, Netherlands. 8.2014
Eastern Wall, Photography and Art Exhibition, Handel’s Court Gallery, Chester, UK 02.2013
Professional Photographer of the Year 2012, Photography Exhibition, Cheltenham, UK. 05.2013
Curiouser & Curiouser, The New Welsh Assembly Building, Shrewsbury, UK. 09.2012
Stained Glass: Marta Sienkiewicz and Students, Muzeum Piastów Polskich, Brzeg, Poland. 06.2010
Glass Design Exhibition, Enter Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia. 05.2010
Wystawa Dyplomowa, Glass Design, Painting and Fine Art Photography, BWA, Wroclaw. 10.2009
Wielka Szajba 2, Design Museum, Wrocław, 11.2008
Sale, Painting Exhibition, Glyndwr, Wrexham, UK. 02.2008
Wielka Szajba, Glass Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Bełchatów. 01.2008
Wielka Szajba, Glass Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Bełchatów. 12.2007
Plener Malarski painting exhibition, ASP, Wrocław. 09.2006
Selected Press
Liberté!, September Issue 2022
„Rembrandt in a Skirt” DDTVN, Short film documentary, August 2022
Cooltura Magazine, July Issue 2022
Amateur Photographer UK, June Issue 2022
Mans World India, Jan Issue 2022
Harpers Bazaar India, November Issue 2021
Vogue India, October Issue 2021
The Portrait System Magazine, June Issue 2021
Tatler Asia, July Issue 2020
Wrozka Mag, Feb Issue 2020
Tatler Asia, December Issue 2019
Photo Magazine HK, April Issue 2016
Great British Life, November Issue 2015
SPEAKING EVENTS & CONFERENCES
„Old Masters as Inspiration- Alchemy of Portraits” speaking event, SFAI Chongqing, China 03.2024
„Przedsiębiorczość kobiet i asymilacja imigrantów”. Rozmowy w Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy, Poland. 09.2023
„How Karolina Skorek Creates Award-Winning Portraits” Interview on Portrait System Podcast, 2023
„Better Together” panel discussions organised with Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki and Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway Grants at the Tichauer Art Gallery, September 2023.
Curatorial and artist talk about the Lux et Umbra exhibition, Goldmark Gallery, Katowice Poland, 2022
„Magical Portrait”, Republic of Dreams, School of Arts, Gdansk, 2019
Creative Futures Speaker, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, UK 2016
