Based in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Kasia Frankowicz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reflects her upbringing in Western Sydney and her family’s complex history. Frankowicz explores the shifting ground where truth slips into myth and nostalgia becomes an act of reinvention. Handpicked as one of Saatchi Art’s 30 Rising Stars of 2025—chosen from the platform’s global community of nearly 100,000 artists across more than 100 countries—Kasia is celebrated for her bold vision and distinctive voice.
Her paintings resonate with the tension between the familiar and the surreal. Motifs of the sun, moon stars and animals emerge as guides or symbols, everyday moments take on quiet enchantment, and layered surfaces suggest traces of lives once lived or longed for. Her bold use of colour and expressive line reflect early influences from naive art and henri matisse to david hockney, merging low and high brow art to create somehting unique.
In Kasia’s world, real and imagined memories coexist—forming an emotional archaeology of transformation and contradiction. Her intuitive, layered process turns each work into a site of reflection on the self, the past, and the narratives that shape us.
Working across painting, digital media, and experimental game design, Kasia moves fluidly between forms while remaining anchored to her central concerns. Her collaborations span from science labs to queer nightlife, and her work has appeared in Frankie, Art/Edit, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
Through her dreamlike detail and fearless mark-making, Kasia invites viewers into spaces where memory, myth, and meaning entwine—offering a tender yet defiant vision of the poetry within everyday life.