About Goshka

Welcome on my website. My name is Malgorzata Bialek. However most of my friends know me as Goshka. Thats why I decided to use Goshka as my artistic pseudonym.

I am a sculptor, teacher and cultural animator. I have BA (2000) and MA (2003) degrees in Sculpture and Glass and also MSc in Economics; specialisation: Economic cybernetics and Computer Science (1986). Currently I a m based in Edinburgh; before that I lived in Durham (1990-2006) and Warsaw (until 1990).

Picture was taken when I was working at exposition in Tehran. Tehran in Iran, March 2007

Durham Cathedral exposition. Durham, England

I work with a variety of materials but I am fascinated by transparent and semitransparent materials because seeing inside the sculpture creates a “fourth dimension”.

My work is usually quite large scale and sculptural, often exploring various aspects of the human form. I am fascinated by the beauty of human body (even, or perhaps especially when, it is not beautiful in a conventional sense) and by people’s embarrassment when confronted by nakedness. I am also interested in the connection between the past and the present

I have exhibited in the North East of England, and also in London, Lincolnshire, Surrey, Iceland, Poland and Iran. My most prestigious projects to date were in Durham Cathedral (Echo of the Past) where I was the first artist since 14th century allowed to exhibit at the High Altar, in Tehran (Reflection), and in British Embassy in Reykjavik.

Recently I am working on It's my Place project - cooperation between Krakow and Edinburgh (website: itsmyplace-scotpol.net).

My last installation was made for Factory Outlet Shopping Centre in Lubon near Poznan (Poland) in summer 2008.