Bigger Pleasures
22 APRIL 2021 - 13 MAY 2021Notes
Bart Hajduk is a Polish artist living in London. He graduated in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (2016) and currently studies on the MA Fine Art programme at the Slade School of Art (2022).
Bart’s practice is influenced by the realm of personal mythologies, memories, sexuality, spirituality and cosmology, as well as Polish culture and rural sensibility. In his drawings and paintings Bart creates sensuous and intimate dreamscapes populated with animals, animal-human hybrids, plants, planets and biological forms. In this imagined reality, or reality filtered through the world of imagination and dreams, the boundaries between human and non-human perceptions become blurred and merge together. Part self-portraits, part mystical dreamscapes, his works reflect a desire to re-engage oneself with the natural world and the wider universe around us.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Drawing Room, Berntson and Bhattacharjee (2021) London Graduates Now, Saatchi Gallery (2020), Slade x Kristin Hjellegjerde, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2020), Szybki Egipt, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Poland (2020).
Accolades
Education: Slade School of Art, MA 2022. Camberwell College of Arts 2016
Recent and upcoming exhibitions: 2021 Drawing Room. Berntson Bhattacharjee, London. 2021 The Artists' Dozen, online exhibition and auction. 2021 Colour / Collage / Poetry, Slade School of Art. 2021 Women's Aid Charity Auction x Berntson Bhattacharjee. 2020 London Grads Now. Saatchi Gallery, London. 2020 Slade x Kristin Hjellegjerde. Kristin Hjellegjerde, London. 2020 Tate x Slade Christmas card.Tate, London. 2020 Szybki Egipt. Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland. 2019 Plants speak if we listen. Chisenhale Art Place, London. 2019 Slade interim show. Slade School of Art, London. 2019 Transitive States, UCL 2019 art society exhibition. Framers Gallery, London. 2019 Menagerie.Woburn Research Centre, Slade School of Art, London