Danuta Solowiej

Trained with Zofia Demkowska at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the London Royal College of Art, resident in London. She has lectured at the Edinburgh College of Art, Loughborough College of Art and Design, the RCA and at selected art colleges in London as part of the BAMS Student Model Project. In 2001 she showed some of her work alongside ivories and plaques in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in her exhibition, Recall.

Her latest commissions include a series of plaques for Bankside based on Chaucer, another set of bas-reliefs for a nearby children's playground, the Sibthorp medal for Oxford University Plant Sciences and the British Art Medal Society President's medal for their 25th anniversary. She has also been commissioned by the Royal Mint to make several medals including the Royal Horticultural Society medal and the Florence Nightingale medal.

Much of her recent work revolves around the idea of Witnesses - figures who express a single, fleeting emotion captured in bronze, sometimes singly, sometimes in threes. She has also explored the impact that a badge or postcard can make, despite their ephemeral nature. Her work has been included in the recent British Museum touring show on badges and she has run workshops at the BM on making badges. She has also been experimenting in ceramics and three medals in stoneware and gold leaf are shown on the website from the Sunrise/Moonrise series.