Gocha Meg Stankiewicz is a Polish artist and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Her body of work draws on the allure, passion and mystery of the Baroque and Rococo movements, into which she injects her own colour, texture and composition to create her own unique style.
Gocha is inspired not only by the paintings and architecture that still speak to the decadence of the past, but also by small moments of modern life that recall in their own ways a similar aesthetic. Walking down cobbled streets and hearing the shouts of traders brings to her mind satin shoes uncertainly looking for the folding steps of a carriage. She considers that ‘we live in a Baroque civilisation right now, with similar splendour, luxury and illusion, but also enormous possibilities of technological development, digital philosophy and above all, hope’. In her work, she hopes to bring her own colour, texture and composition to make this link more real and more vivid.
Gocha is a participant in art exhibitions in her native Poland and internationally. She organises and curates artistic ‘plein-airs’ and is the founder and curator of the cyclical art exhibitions ‘Master Weekends’. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and is also a screenwriter.