Dawid Andrzej ŁAWICKI (b. 1996), Phantom, 2023

woodcuts, paper, 70 x 100 cm, 3/4, signed at bottom: Dawid Andrzej Ławicki

born 1996 in Plock. Graduated from the 1st Władysław Drapiewski Private High School of Fine Arts in Polotsk specializing in visual advertising in the studio of Magdalena Sikorska-Tokarska, M.A. 2012-2016 Graduate of the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Completed and defended his diploma in the relief printmaking studio under Prof. Marek Basiul in 2021. He works mainly in woodcut technique, but also experiments with techniques such as intaglio, collograph, linocut and mokulito. He is also involved in pinhole photography and painting with paintings. I draw inspiration for my works from nature. In my work I process motifs from nature so that they lose their original form, thus creating a kind of organic abstraction. The main motifs in my works are cows, the human body and willows. He is currently a PhD student at the Artium Humaniorum doctoral school at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His artistic output includes several solo exhibitions and about 25 group exhibitions at home and abroad. His art diploma received an honorable mention for the best diploma at the Department of Graphic Arts and he took part in the exhibition "Diploma 2021, Best Diplomas of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University" organized by the CCA in Torun. In 2022, he received an Honorable Mention from the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Second National Art Competition New Situations "Contrast, and an Honorable Mention from the Art Vue Foundation 2022 for his participation in the Art Vue Foundation Prize 2022.