gaby mlynarczyk London, United Kingdom
Gaby Młynarczyk is an East London-based artist working across ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media. She studied Sculpture at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and completed an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2024. Młynarczyk was Ceramic Artist in Residence at UCA Farnham (2024–25) and has exhibited internationally, including in London, New York and Los Angeles
My practice considers sculpture as an ecological act—an ongoing negotiation between material, time, and human intention. Working primarily with clay, salvaged ceramics, and found matter, I construct forms that appear grown rather than designed, shaped through processes of accumulation, fracture, and repair. These works reflect my enduring interest in marine and plant biology, evolutionary structures, and the unintended landscapes generated by industrial excess. Clay is not a neutral medium but an active collaborator. Its memory of pressure, heat, and gravity informs each decision, guiding the work beyond preconceived design. I am drawn to moments where control gives way to contingency: where glazes bloom unpredictably, joins fail, or fragments demand new alliances. Through binding, stitching, and reassembling broken elements, I explore how materials carry histories that cannot be erased, only reconfigured. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has become a central metaphor within my thinking—a vast, drifting assemblage in which disparate remnants are held together by invisible nets. My sculptures echo this condition: hybrid bodies formed from rescued shards and newly made components, suspended between ruin and renewal. They ask how we might live responsibly with the debris of our own making, and whether acts of repair can be honest without pretending to restore an impossible wholeness. I understand sculpture as both object and relationship. The studio operates as a site of slow observation where touch becomes a form of thinking, and where materials teach their own ethics of care. Influenced by ideas of vibrant matter and rhizomatic connection, I seek forms that acknowledge interdependence—between human and non-human systems, between maker and material, between past use and future possibility. My intention is to contribute to contemporary sculpture through works that are materially rigorous and environmentally attentive: objects that hold complexity without resolution, that remain open to change, and that invite viewers to reconsider their own entanglement with the material world.
