Agata Gertchen

Agata Gertchen was born in Rawicz, Poland and studied from 2004-2010 at the Graphics Faculty of Wroclaw Academy of Art and Design receiving a Master of Fine Arts Degree. In 2008 she took part in the Erasmus scholarship program at the Fine Arts Faculty of Wolverhampton University in England and was granted a month-long scholarship at the Tennessee University in Knoxville, USA in 2009. 2009 – 2010 she was employed as a laboratory technician in prof. Jacek Szewczyk’s Creative Drawing Studio. From 2010 she’s been working as an assistant in prof. Przemyslaw Tyszkiewicz’s Intaglio Studio at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland. Her preferred techniques are linocut and mezzotint.

I entitled my latest series of prints – Purification. The name pertains to more than the subject of my inspiration which is represented by the washing machine and its obvious function of cleansing. The title encompasses several levels of interpretation. With each of my works I attempt to touch upon a different problem that is more or less connected with the washing machine, cleansing and the role of a human being, and more precisely woman, in that process