Art was always my homeland. With no boundaries and limitations, an unrestricted freedom to create, explore and reflect. It is an extension of me and my experiences. A way to communicate with others, a vehicle to deliver messages that matter. Taking on a role as an artist not only as a practitioner but as an educator, philosopher and campaigner building a legacy of meaning. Drawing from the real life my work is nothing but raw, unfiltered and authentic aiming to strike the very core of issues presented. Working across disciplines and employing the most valid approach to the topic, I remain open to materials, techniques and methods. Currently undergoing a transition to large scope installations mirroring the importance and urgency of the messages considered. Art is my battle field pursuing the never ending quest for truth, knowledge and understanding. By bringing to the surface uncomfortable, forgotten, difficult and complex but significant, my art is nothing but an answer to the inner calling.
Izabela Beata Kuchta (b.1984), born in Poland, made in Britain, is a visual artist and writer whose main practice is concerned with the issues of complexities and connections. Her opportunistic approach allows to draw inspirations from all around: experiences, reflections and reading. She remains fascinated with ideas and concepts which feed into her eclectic visual philosophies. In her work, Kuchta deconstructs and unpacks complexities also playfully constructing new realities while exploring hidden and unknown potentialities. Her early fascination with cubism, surrealism and abstract expressionism visibly influences her work. She is interested in raw, unfiltered, brutal, rough, scared, abnormal, irrational, textured, imperfect and real. Her pursuit of meaning underpins her work, which channels her academic background, personal experiences and ongoing broad interdisciplinary reading. She stands by the importance of universal existential questions which she locates at the core of human life and informs her practice. Her wonder of unknown and yet to be discovered as an open ended inquiry allows her work to become a temporary and always transforming manifestation of never ending quest for truth and meaning as much as pursuit of meaning and understanding. Kuchta’s works demonstrates her unique ability to connect broad ideas and concepts, exploring relationships, dependencies and tracing origins of issues in order to address them. Her work attempts to find links between contradictions and complexities: abstraction and social, dystopian and exemplary, visible and unknown, familiar and uncertain, matter and frequencies, personal and collective. Strived by curiosity and inner creative potential she adopted philosophical pragmatism as her approach. Her work fuses dystopian geometry with esoteric ongoing transformation. It provides a visual experience of endless exploration, patters seeking and sense making in a symbolic representation of inner mental maps and human complexities of human mind, experiences and existence. Kuchta’s unique and distinctive style and visual language represents her inner voice which finally finds a way out to be broadcasted to the world. She produces mainly abstract paintings and sculptures. She is also actively involved in social and educational projects with an aim to bring social justice and change for better. She is outspoken about social issues such as poverty, housing, domestic labour, women’s health, invisible disability and childhood.
Abstract art allows to hold infinities in a singular moment. It is a visual representation of my intellectual pursuit of meaning, truth, understanding and wisdom.
Driven by personal experiences, Kuchta’s work is also largely invested in topics of social justice and contemporary social issues, particularly women’s experiences, women’s health and domestic landscape. Her special attention is dedicated to invisible disability, auto-immunological illnesses in women, recognition of domestic labour, emotional wellbeing and the link between stress, expression and health. Her multidisciplinary and multimedia projects explore range of themes rated to human struggles.
Masters of Fine Art - Royal College of Art - 2024/26
UAL Level 3 Art and Design - Morley College - 2023/24
PGCE with Early Years and Music Specialism - University College London - 2019/20
Masters of Science in Psychology - University of West London - 2018/20
Bachelors of Arts in Education studies - London Metropolitan University - 2016/19
The Reparative Gaze - Royal College of Art - Hockney Gallery - 2025
All Love Begins and Ends Here - Royal College of Art - Gulbenkian Gallery - 2025
InVisible - Royal College of Art - Hockney Gallery - London - 25-27 November 2024
Where is Everybody? - Morley Gallery , London - 2024
Summer Arts and Crafts Exhibition - Macbeth Centre, London - 2023
Solo Exhibition - Fulham Palace, London - 2022
SOFAP - London - 2022
SOFAP - London - 2021
Royal College of Art - Continuation Fund - 2025
Royal College of Art - Villiers David Foundation Award - 2024
Royal College of Art - Disability Award - 2024
The Zenobia Nadirshaw Prize in Psychology - 2019 - University of West London
Art Commission - Kaleidoscope - 2017 - London Metropolitan University