I am an independent curator and researcher based in the North West England. I work across the arts and disciplines exploring different ways of engaging with the world to create meaningful experiences.

I employ various techniques in my practice. I work with big and small spaces, fast and slow paces, seldom within museums, most often not. I get excited when I can work with city spaces and platforms that exist naturally and get an opportunity to create site-specific event using experimental formats for artists and the wider public, whilst applying depth, rigour, and critical edge to the given project. I work with public institutions, curators, artists, and festivals).

I am curious about ways people enter meaningful dialogue, our relationship to the material world, and places we inhabit. After nearly two decades in the North West I have been inspired by the long-overdue acknowledgment of the quiet changeability and ‘invisibility’ of this place. The search for regions, reflecting on the towns in terms of landscape helps me engage in the recalibration taking place in the metaphorical meaning of its ‘invisibility’ and exploring what is unknown or abandoned yet still present. For the inhabitants of this part of the UK (thenorthwesteners) where local identities have been often shifted and certain places erased like a rubber, from utopias to metaphorical ruins, invisibility means more; invisibility is that of dreams barely expressed and those that have been reduced to rubble. The changeability of the place and its landscape is crucial to local identity and love for it continues to grow as discoveries never end. Morecambe Bay is one example.

I am also drawn to questions of postcolonial thinking in ever globalising landscape, and ways our identities are shaped by borders, their movement, tension and continuous reinterpretation of our collective memories. The threat of imminent extinction of cultures, languages, local narratives and our basic human abilities never stop baffling me. It won’t come as a surprise that lack of connection, extremely narrow worldviews, and carelessness for natural world are mostly on my mind as is the case with many curators and artists. Professor Stuart Walker, Eduardo Glissant, Professor Helen Spencer-Otley and other thinkers who propose tangible yet different approaches to addressing narrowing grips and hegemonizing forces of globalisation have greatly inspired and continue to inform my practice. All three of them offer practical ideas on how we can make a difference on fundamental level.

Over past 15 years I had an honour of working with leading organisations in the North West and internationally, such as for example: LICA, Lancaster Arts, Litfest, LUL, UCLAN and Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej and I had a privilege of working with award winning artists, including: Hatain Patel, RHEA STORR, Amy Sharrock, Raisin & Willow, Tania El Khoury, JR Carpenter, William Titley, Rebecca Davis, Lowri Evans, Joe Baker, Amy Sharrocks, Leo Burtin, Nati Krawtz and many more. Majority of my work manifested in interdisciplinary frameworks, with a focus on socially engaged practices on local and international scale, often utilising empty, unutilised spaces and new technology.  

Since graduating from MA in Contemporary Arts from Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts I have worked on production and curation of creative projects within publishing, visual arts, performing arts and design.  I curated numerous exhibitions including the site specific installations and arts and science interventions, I commissioned public art, co-produced and co-curated art festival and assisted established and award winning producers in their ventures.

I hold MBA in Social and Public Communication in the Cultural Context from University of Silesia, which equipped me with the journalist skills to critically analyse and navigate varies discourses and tackle communication challenges in a range of settings. My dissertation was a critical analysis of European Discourse in contemporary literary works by Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk.

I am also a PhD Design student at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Art researching contemporary art of the North West. My research explores the role of curatorship in driving community change in the context of environmental crisis.

I teach Cross-Cultural Competence as part of Lancaster University’s Global Engagement strategy and I was instrumental in creating a learning enhancement programme focused on global citizenship and intercultural learning. Over past several years I had a privilege of talking to hundreds of students, both International and British, and I learned that the most effective way of encouraging them to commit to expand their worldviews is to welcome the possibility of being changed by others and possibility that you might change others too. I enjoy learning from them in turn. I am on my own journey of unlearning and re-learning to be an effective ally for mindful intercultural dialogue.

I put my mind into action through rituals, walking, talking to my neighbours, and reading.

‘Ewa is an exceptional creative thinker, who always generously offers to put her skills in service of the development of artists and producers ideas. Her practice makes an impact which benefits the sector as a whole’ .
Dr Leo Burtin (Writer, Creative Director, Producer)

‘She brings a discipline for the artistic integrity not to be compromised and depth of experience in working with artists. More than anything I value her emotional intelligence and communication skills. I have never worked with anyone who addressed the best way for us to communicate, navigate different expectations, working styles and perspectives’‍ ‍
Dr Joe Bourne (Creative Communications Fellow - Imagination Lancaster)