Paulina Kurzydlowska is a multidisciplinary artist who makes work addressing our contemporary relationship to the image predominantly through painting, textiles and digital processes. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Liverpool Hope University in 2025, Paulina Kurzydlowska is currently studying towards her MA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art where she undertakes extracurricular projects in live contemporary public performance. In the studio, she utilises a watery painting technique to reflect movement, depict nature and indicate memories connected to the place and time significant to the artist herself. Through textile experiments, Kurzydlowska reveals the relevance and optical sensations of pixels and distorted imagery in the modern day by reimagining the formal elements of Op Art. By engaging in a variety of objects, Kurzydlowska’s work encourages viewers to consider their own interaction with digital technology, intimacy and nature in real-time.

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In 2023, Kurzydlowska was commissioned by Liverpool Cathedral to reconstruct their Nativity Tableau addressing sustainability and identity through a contemporary retelling of Jesus’ Birth. As well as Liverpool Cathedral, her work has also been exhibited in Saan1 LUMINARIUM (2026), Altogether Otherwise Making & Mending (2025), Liverpool Hope’s Visual Arts Degree Show 2025, the Hodgson Loom Gallery FRUIT and FLY (2026 and 2022 respectively) and the Sovereign Art Foundation IOM (2022). She has received broad support for her work, including from ARTS AID IOM, Rotary Rushen & Western Mann, ZARI Gallery, The Creative Network and the Castlefield Gallery. 

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Paulina Kurzydlowska is the 2026 prize winner of the Eco Future Sketchbook Competition, second place winner of the Courtyard Gallery Project (2025), prize winner for the ZARI Gallery’s Emerging Visual Artist Award (2025) and the Public Vote Prize Winner from the Sovereign Art Foundation (2022).