Tomasz Kukawski is an international award-winning printmaker from Poland and has had a long and distinguished career working across a variety of mediums. His works are held in numerous private collections and museums both in Poland and abroad. Tomasz has held the position of Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Białystok University of Technology since 2003 and continues to lead the printmaking workshop at the university. In 2025, Tomasz was awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture by the Polish Ministry for Culture and National Heritage.
For Thomas, graphic art has long been an alchemy, a discipline combining brutality with delicacy, brutality in the sense of treating the matrix material combined with the delicacy of form and thought on paper.
"I like to delve into myself and my work. I guess that's my personality, and I think more and more often that you can't force yourself to do too many things, you can't give up on many things, you have to slowly try to listen to your own nature. Art is there to express what cannot be expressed by other means. Maybe it is naivety, but I still believe in it a little. I myself am increasingly made up of doubts, which is why I have to repeat to myself from time to time the words of William Blake: ' Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.' Without deep self-discipline, nothing will be achieved."