Paulina Kurzydlowska is a multidisciplinary artist who makes work addressing our contemporary relationship to the image predominantly through painting, textiles and digital processes. Paulina is currently undergoing The Breakthrough Artist Fellowship Award with the Artists Futures Fund and an Artist in Residence at Liverpool Hope University, where she continues to develop an interdisciplinary practice through painting and embroidery studies. At Manchester School of Art she expanded her practice into extracurricular projects in live contemporary public performance. Throughout her paintings, she utilises a watery technique to reflect movement, depict nature and indicate memories connected to a place and time significant to the artist herself. Through textile experiments, Paulina reveals the relevance of the 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, she encourages viewers to consider their own interaction with digital technology, intimacy and nature in real-time.

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In 2023, Paulina 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 the Artists Future Fund, 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).