Małgorzata Łapsa-Malawska

Gosia is a Polish artist based in London. She is a Street Art lover and self confessed Portobello addict (seeking help).
She works in: painting, collage, photography, poster design and lithography.

In her work are visible influences of 'The Polish School of Posters' and Japanese aesthetics.

Gosia uses terse language and a monochrome palette, to seamlessly blend ideas within a dimension of stark simplicity and suggested form.

The artist believes in fewer strokes, to achieve clarity and space to invite her audience to use their own imaginations.

In her works she explores the relationships between people and art in public spaces, the idea of an urban loneliness and the isolation one can experience when lost in a crowd.

The artist avidly watches people, observing lives that inevitably inspire her, as she transposes them and her personal experiences into the hinterlands of her imagination.

BEFORE CHILDHOOD ENDED. (POLAND, SUMMER 1939,MY GRANDMA ANIA, AUNTIE JOLA AND EWA)

50x40cm, oil on linen canvas,

Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016

BEFORE CHILDHOOD ENDED.

(POLAND, SUMMER 1939, MY GRANDMA ANIA, AUNTIE JOLA AND EWA)

The image depicts one hot summer in the South of Poland (perhaps in Kraków or Muszyna) with three cousins; joyful girls who used to spend time together sharing secrets, stories and fun. That summer was the last carefree time of their childhood, before 1st September 1939 when the World War II changed their lives forever.

'Before Childhood Ended' is homage to my Grandma and to all who had to grow up immediately that summer.