About Sylvia Batycka
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Education
2016 - 2019
University of the Arts London WCA
2014 - 2016
City Lit, London
2011 - 2012
University of the Arts London LCC
2008 - 2012
Westminster University, London
Awards
2021
One Paved Court
2020
ING Discerning Eye Finalist
2019
Ingram Prize Finalist
“ Our annual Purchase Prize exists to celebrate and support artists at the outset of their careers, and is open to all artists who have graduated from a UK art school in the last five years. The 2019 edition of the prize was exhibited at The Cello Factory in London from 9 – 12 November, and showcased the work of our 24 finalists”.
2019
Pinea Linea de Costa
2019
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
2017
Saatchi Art
2016
Saatchi Art
2014
EWAAC
2013
British Women Artists
2010
The Brix
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Event: The woman’s place is everywhere
Dates: 8 Mar 2022 - 12 Mar 2022
The group show of female artist with the feminist profile.
Event: Female Narratives
Dates: 8 Mar 2021 - 31 Mar 2021
Solo show following the residency at the galllery.
Event: The ING Discerning Eye
Dates: 19 Nov 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics.
The 2020 edition happened exclusively online.
Invited by Jo Baring.
Event: Ingram Collection Young Talent Purchase Prize
Dates: 9 Nov 2019 - 12 Nov 2019
Finalist.
The Ingram Collection Purchase Prize exists to celebrate and support artists at the outset of their careers, and is open to all artists who have graduated from a UK art school in the last five years.
Event: MiAL Collection 2019 Inauguration
Dates: 11 Sep 2019 - 29 Nov 2019
The show introducing works chosen for Made in Arts London 2019 Collection.
Event: MFA Degree Show
Dates: 13 Jun 2019 - 23 Jun 2019
Painting works selected to represent practice development during MFA.
Event: Who will provide?
Dates: 1 Nov 2018 - 11 Nov 2018
Collective exhibition of MFA students.
Event: 17m2
Dates: 2 May 2017 - 2 May 2017
Eclectic group show in central London
Event: Life in a shoebox
Dates: 30 Mar 2017 - 6 Mar 2017
MFA students show expressing London experience of living in tiny spaces.
Event: SHE
Dates: 30 Jul 2016 - 31 Jul 2016
Showcase the work of local and international artists exploring the theme of femininity, feminine identity and issues faced by women worldwide.
Event: "O1" Exhibition
Dates: 18 Mar 2016 - 23 Mar 2016
I have presented installation "#Nomad" within the group graduation show from FAD UAL City Lit.
Event: "Hybrid Women"
Dates: 5 Mar 2015 - 11 Mar 2015
Solo show. Magazine collages on identity, suspense and glamour. Deconstruction and reconstitution of the figure. A week long event placed around International Women Day.
Event: Artists Open House
Dates: 16 May 2014 - 1 Jun 2014
Exhibition hosted by the gallery during open studios time for selected artists who required exhibition space.
Event: Lambeth Annual Art Competition
Dates: 22 Jun 2010 - 26 Jun 2010
The exhibition concluding the annual art competition in Lambeth. 1st prize winner.
Biography
My practice is devout to portraits of women, the passers-by from the moment in time. I acknowledge their strength and their glamour. I inquire into the aesthetics of absence, hauntology, and nostalgia.
I look at the dress as the memory of the absent. Dresses, that I consider to be ultimately female garments, form their own visual language -- the feminine sartorial language that speaks of identity, empowerment, and allure. In the absence of the wearer, the dress speaks of non appearance. In the absence of the wearer, the dress forms the only portrait that remains.
My work has an intermediary power between entities: past and present, photography and painting. The protagonists I portray I uncover in archival photos that I collect. They entice me from the past with their glamour, strength, mystery, untold stories, yet often all I am left with is an orphan image reflecting a second of their life, a stage moment. Photography informs my painting, both the archival photos and the contemporary ones I take myself. My paintings, however, unlike the photographs that inspired them, are not the items of evidence. They are reminders of something else - faded lives, fleeting memories; they draw on the state of loss as an emotion.
I also see the role of an artist as an archivist, as the bearer of the past that holds the key to the future. They look after the images of the past, more than that - they responsible for bringing forward time honoured processes, such an oil painting, etching, ceramics.
