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There are four people in Andrzej, hence the four names - Andrzej, Michal, Maria and "N". All born in Warsaw out of the Teutonic Knight's and Tartar's blood of his Polish ancestors.

Andrzej is an art historian and critic, graduated at Warsaw University (M.A.) and London (M.A. Courtauld Institute). He is a sceptical and sarcastic man, but his art could be fun. He teaches in Brighton University in the School of Art.

Michal is an angel and he hardly ever touches the ground. He flies. His is a mercurian nature. It is probably he who is an actor. He worked in theatre and dance and even did some films with Melanie Griffith and one with Sting.

Maria is his third name. She is a woman, the Earth, and probably a better artist and poet than Andrzej, but.... Through her I feel.

"N" is my fourth name. It might be an animal, wolf or ape. It is in me and plays with the other three.

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Basia was born in Poland. She attended Central St. Mourtins College of Art gaining a BA and a Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Communication.

She paints, makes prints and also writes and illustrates her own books.

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Basia was born in Nottingham, England in 1964 to Polish parents and attended the Manning School for Girls in that city. She studied art at St Martins School of Art and Design in London.

She is currently teaching art to people with stress related problems and to people with learning difficulties.

Basia believes, (to quote the journals of Jacek Kozlowski, 1928), "that there is no difference between making a work of art and making a cup of tea."

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Danuta Solowiej-Wedderburn was born 1962 in Bialystok, Poland. She attended the Lyceum at Suprasl, studying tapestry and painting. In 1987 she obtained an MA in sculpture having specialised in medallic art under Professor Zofia Demkowska at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw.

In 1988 she moved to London where in 1988/89 she completed a contemporary medals course at the Royal College of Art, where she is now a visiting lecturer on medallic art.

She has taken part in numerous shows in Great Britain and abroad. In 1997/98 her first solo exhibition "Traces of Feelings" toured Poland. Recently she showed her work along the sculpture collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in the solo exhibition "Recall".

Her work can be found in many national and private collections including the Museum of Medallic Art, Wroclaw, Poland; National Museum of Finland, Helsinki; British Museum, London; The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths', London, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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Ela was born in Warsaw and came to London in 1981 where she now lives. She worked as an interpreter, macrobiotic cook and a photographer before graduating in Fine Art from Goldsmith University. She has presented film, video, installation and performance through her drama queen production and works on paper and other small, hand made objects through a happy birthday production. She is also one half of Bulldog & Terrier - a self help performance duet

Selected group shows
Experimental Colour, Photofusion Gallery, Brixton, London 1994
Stones in Her Pockets - Collaboration with Monocrone for 1995/1996 Women's Photography Festival; U.K. touring.
Hydra Live Art 2 K - performance in collaboration with Danger Museum, Brick Lane Music Hall, London, 2000. Please view www.dangermuseum.com for documentation.
Blue Boy Shop - in collaboration with Danger Museum, Vauxhall Mansions, London, 2000

Solo shows
Site seeing - Billboards on the Kings Cross Estate building site.
Photographic exhibition in the TUC Conference Centre, London, June 1996

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Karen Strang graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1985. She then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Although trained as a painter, she has worked in various visual areas, such as performance, film and installation.

She is a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists and a member of the Stirling-based Hanging Together artists' group.

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Krystyna Shackleton Dzieszko is British born of Anglo-Polish origin. This richness of duality provides a constant source of inspiration and innovation in her work. Krystyna lives and works in London

Her links with Poland are mainly cultural, but through exhibiting work and visiting family, her links with the present continue to put down new Polish roots.

Krystyna's artistic practice combines the use of tergal, mirrors, print, photography and painting, in creating two and three-dimensional site-specific work on themes of identity, memory and a sense of place.

Currently lecturing at Kensington and Chelsea College and at the PM Gallery in Ealing.

Previous exhibitions include: Camden Arts Centre, Arts Council tour UK, and Instituto Nacional, Mexico City. Work also in the permanent collection of the National Museum Warsaw and in private collections.

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Louise Severyn Kosinska was born in London, studying Fine Art at Portsmouth and at Central School of Art and Design, London.

She was awarded a travelling scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Glaziers. She has made sculpture and glass and works with installation and site-specific pieces. She has exhibited in England, France, Poland and Iceland. Her recent work involves the moving image and sound. In 2001 Louise exhibited installations and site-specific work at a semi restored castle in Poland. Most recently she participated in an exhibition of projected work at MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture in London

Future projects include site-specific installations at Wieliczka salt mine in Poland, and Three Women Artist exhibition in Paris.

Louise wants to create a balance, bringing together opposite energies in a meeting point. Her work is concerned with journeys, particularly points of entry and departure. She anchors these images to stories, especially fairy tales, to give a sense of Otherness. She is drawn to opposites and images with two halves. Turning things from the inside out and reinventing, she uses materials that reflect ambiguities of perception.

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