Anka Dabrowska – ‘HIDEOUT’

14/08/25 till 20/08/25

HIDEOUT showcases work in progress; sculpture, collage and prep drawings. The work is part of an ongoing Sea Shelters project  embracing themes of queer empowerment, identity, belonging, environmental issues and architecture.

About the Artist:

Anka Dabrowska is a lesbian London-based visual artist working in drawing, illustration, sculpture, stencil, mural and installation art. Anka also curates exhibitions and facilitates workshops. She has worked with multiple organisations such as The Tate, Queercircle, Pushkin House, Gay Times, Soho House, Hackney Council, Act Up London, Tom of Finland Foundation and POMOC (Polish Migrants Organise for Change).

Her practice is rooted in drawing and the forming of numerous representations of urban environments. She also creates sculptures and installations from found materials as extensions of the ideas that inform her two dimensional based pieces. Her works are born out of extensive research that she undertakes in a given city, town, place, space. By mapping those through intense research projects she collects hidden traces, stories, public and private histories . Her interest is in brutalist architecture, territories both real and imagined, her own memories of growing up in Warsaw, universal memories, stories of a given place, transformation and regeneration.

Anka Dabrowska (b. 1979 Warsaw, Poland) graduated in 2003 from University of Northumbria in Newcastle where she attained her Masters in Fine Art with distinction. She lives and works in London and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally.

Private View:

Thursday 13th August