Jacek Pakula was born in Poland and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. His unique work expresses an internal landscape with visceral power whilst using a variety of mediums including acrylic, oils, oil pastels on range of different supports from paper through to canvas and boards. The viewer is gripped both by their dynamic colors and a childlike hand. The Artist’s ‘Faces’ collection of vibrant oil pastel portraits and visions is inspired by an obvious connection to the tradition of mask making. With arresting colors and patterns that are also newly raw and unmediated these works offer the viewer a vision-like invitation to enter another dimension of awareness.
BIOGRAPHY:
1979 Born in Kozienice, Poland
Lives in Melbourne, Australia
Education
2005 Bachelor Degree of Information and Library Science
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
2012 Graduate Certificate in Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Exhibitions
2012 Graduate Show, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Faces, Masks and Other Visions, Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Internal Landscapes, Sydenham Library, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Edging: exploration the boundaries between the sub and supraliminal,
St Albans Community Centre & Bowery Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Edging continuum: exploration the boundaries between the sub and supraliminal,
Hunt Club Community and Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Fear of the Invitality of the Sun, Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Oblicza Polonii: Faces of Polish Community, Polish Art Foundation, Online exhibition
2022 Borders, Polis Art Foundation, Victorian Artist Society Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Collections
Private Collections in Poland and Australia