Magda Blasinska is a London based international exhibiting artist. Her work seeks to transmit the experience of wonder. Working primarily from memory, Blasinska draws from a wide range of fragmented sources including childhood experiences, images of ambient places and family heirloom relics. Growing up in Masovia in Soviet rural Poland informed the artist's relationship with folklore and nature: these otherworldly elements are repeatedly woven into the artist's collage of practice. Brought into the wider context, her work reflects upon the extraordinary effect of objects, language and belief upon personal and collective memory and perception.

One of the currently recurring motifs in her work are empty picture frames, which - as a child - she would often find in the family home attic. The frames, lacking original images and photographs, have become a departure point to her abstract image making.

Primarily a painter, Blasinska builds the world of light and tactile surfaces, utilising humble and physically insubstantial materials such as painting with air and weaving with straw. Her shimmering, immersive installations navigate somewhere between Magical Realism and Arte Povera, creating illusive effect and providing a context to her painting. In parallel to her thatch and hand-woven wheat reed installations, Blasinska’s painting methodically highlights the physical presence of the human hand. The linen supports are stretched and prepared by hand. Rich textures and canvas depths are achieved thanks to slow application of layers of highly pigmented oil paint, elevating the artist's interest in alchemical properties of painting.

Blasinska holds an MA Degree in Painting from Royal College of Art (2018) and BA(Hons) Degree in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College or Art (2009).

Selected shows include: Summer Exhibition RA, London (2023); Generator Bobinska Brownlee New River Gallery, London (2023); Close Corners Hilbertraum, Berlin (2023); Stand with Ukraine Hales Gallery, London (2022); Postcards from the Edge of the World Visual Aids, New York (2021); Young Talent Contemporary: Ingram Prize, London (2019), Traverse Smith Award, London (2019); A Century of Polish Artists in Britain Ben Uri Museum, London, 2017; Here/Now. Polish Contemporary Art in Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2012)

She is a recent recipient of DYCP Arts Council England Award, and a winner of 2010 Lynda Clarke Nolan RSA:New Contemporaries Landscape Painting Prize at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.