Karolina is a British-based Polish artist who works predominantly in sculpture and rug-making. Her artistic practice explores dreams and mythologies, delving into the subject matter of the inbetween; the grey area between dream and reality, a fantasy space where figures balance precariously between definitions. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on dreamscapes, paying particular attention to the uncanny, creating scenes in which things are not quite right, undefined and uncomfortable, littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants. She uses the meditative state of dreaming to examine the strangeness of inhabiting a body and its fragility, and as a lens to reconfigure the everyday. Karolina is deeply influenced by (cosmic and body) horror, mythology, science fiction and the confusions of corporeal reality.

 

"Dworska’s gloriously abject and comic tapestries, rugs and sculptures bring surreal dreamscapes full of softly rendered horror and longing into the gallery - becoming porous membranes through which artefacts from the realms of dream and fantasy leak into our reality."
Excerpt from Field of Difference, an essay by Nick Hackworth