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Hesi Glowacki

Hesi Glowacki, a Polish painter based in London, skillfully blends reality with fantasy to explore emotional and spiritual themes. After earning a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2020, Glowacki completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2023. His work is influenced by personal experiences, religion, popular culture, and fashion, focusing on memory and otherness. Glowacki's art questions the role of ritual in modern life and the transformative nature of objects.

By juxtaposing primitive and contemporary elements, Glowacki's creations lie at the intersection of fine art and artefact. His art balances realistic and dreamlike, figurative and abstract elements, visualising memory and otherness while aiming for transformation and rebirth. Ritual and ceremony reframe the body as a site of power and beauty through alteration and decoration.

Glowacki's use of materials transforms narration into spiritual abstraction, metaphorically referencing alchemical transformation to symbolize self-transformation and identity formation. His installations, featuring artificial flowers and writing, enrich reflections on transmutation, concealment, and celebration, inviting viewers into a complex interplay of reality and fantasy. Glowacki's achievements include the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship from the Chelsea Arts Club Trust in 2023 and the Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Award in 2019.