Hesi Glowacki is a painter from Poland based in London, UK. He completed his undergraduate studies in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (UAL, 2020), and a Master's Degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2023).
Hesi Glowacki creates compositions that imbue reality with elements of fantasy to indicate emotions and spirituality that underlie physical aesthetics. Glowacki's work focuses on themes encompassing memory, otherness, and trauma, spanning influences from personal experience, religion, popular culture and fashion. Hesi Glowacki asks questions about the role ritual plays in today's experience and the nature of things and their transformation, through the unique use of language, materials, and techniques. Glowacki juxtaposes the primitive with the contemporary and sets the cycles of deconstruction and repair placed on the borderline of fine art and artefact.
Born in Poland, lives and works in London, United Kingdom
EDUCATION
2021 - 2023 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
2017 - 2020 BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)
2016 - 2017 Foundation Diploma in Fine Arts, CityLit, University of the Arts London (UAL)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Shall Leave No Trace, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2024 Does Anything Else Under Heaven Really Matter?, D Contemporary, London
2024 All That Life Can Afford, Chelsea Art Club, Auction Exhibition, London
2024 SELF, Plain Gallery, Milano, Italy
2023 Saatchi Gallery, StART art fair, NewBloodArt, London, UK
2023 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK
2023 Degree Show Truman Brewery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2023 Works on paper, Unit 7, Studio 127, Thames-Side Studios, London, UK
2022 Art on a Postcard, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2022 RAW, Soho Revue, London, UK
2022 RCA WIP SHOW, Royal Collage of Art, Online, UK
2020 New Futures Digital, The Art Vault, Digital, Kovet.Art Gallery, London
2020 London Grads Now, Moving Away Moving Closer, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2020 Graduate Showcase, University of the Arts London, Online, London, UK
2020 Burnt Out, Open Studio, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2019 Calthorpe Project & Central Saint Martins, Support Every, London, UK
2019 Tate Modern & Central Saint Martins, Tate Exchange, London, UK
2018 C302 Collective, Moving Gallery 4 Locations, London, UK
2018 Tenants, Open Studio, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2017 Copeland Gallery, WHAT IF...? City Lit, London, UK
2017 Jordi Miquel Gallery, Expo Colectiva, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Light Space Time Gallery, International Abstract Art Online Edition
2013 IPA’s Hometown Gallery, Santa Monica Art Studios, USA
RESIDENCIES
2017 National Education Union Residency and Workshop, London
CURATION
2025 Shall Leave No Trace, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2025 DE/ TBT
AWARDS
2022 Chelsea Arts Club Trust / Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship
2019 Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Award Winner
2018 University of the Arts London Scholarship
2017 Royal Female School of Art (RFSA) Award
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Student artists exhibit their final shows online, The Guardian
2020 The Art Valut: An Online Marketplace for Emerging Artists, Trebuchet Magazine
2020 Kovet Art Presenta The Art Vault Mostra Digitale, L'OfficielItalia
2017 Foundation Diploma in Fine Arts Catalogue, CityLit, University of the Arts London (UAL)
