Karolina Glusiec

Karolina Glusiec is a polish artist currently based in Canada. Her practice is focused on capturing the spectacular in the everyday through her work in animation, drawing and DIY optical experiments. Her animated drawings explore the failure of drawing to capture reality. Her direct approach to filmmaking embraces DIY aesthetics and tactics that stray from traditional narratives and characters in favour of transcribing a lived reality. Her work is embedded in experimental process that merge drawing with filmmaking.

She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London (UK) and a recipient of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. She has worked in various factories, restaurants, hotels. She has worked as an arts administrator, taught as a lecturer in the arts and animation, facilitated DIY animation workshops and worked as a freelancer animation filmmaker. She is currently living in Vancouver and considers herself a very lucky person.