Vanessa Zelek

Vanessa Zelek is an abstract artist whose expressive work is an direct response to her environment and things in her close proximity. Originally from Poland, she has been living in Wexford since early childhood. She recently received a BA in Art with First Class Honours (2023). 

 

Vanessa’s work addresses the artists' relationship with nature. For her, the experience of creating is just as important as the final outcome, using a range of colour combinations and qualities with careful but free and expressive mark-making, often using motions of the body and found objects as tools to apply paint. 

 

Recent exhibitions include Exchanges, DIVA, Dún Laoghaire (2023), Winter Exhibition, Be Framed, Cork (2023), Small Things Like These, LHQ Gallery, Cork (2023), Tooth, DIVA, Dún Laoghaire (2023) and In the Making: Milk at Pallas Projects (2023). Public collections include Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and Office of Public Works.