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We meet artist Rafa\u0142 Zajko (b.1988, Bia\u0142ystok, Poland). Zajko\u2019s work deals with issues around the industrial past, exploring its environmental impact in relation to working class heritage and queer identities. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, ventilation systems, prosthetics and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience, placing an emphasis on the industrial materials and processes that resonate with his heritage.

Zajko is currently working on a public commission with Wysing Arts Centre and St. Peters School in Cambridge, performance commission \u2018Techno Harvest\u2019 for Deptford X festival and a new sculptural commission for Kunsthalle Vienna in autumn 2023. 

He studied for an an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include \u2018Amber Waves II\u2019, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca, SP (2022), \u2018Song to the Siren', Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2022), \u2018Amber Waves\u2019, Public Gallery, London, UK (2021), \u2018Resuscitation\u2019, Castor Projects, London, UK (2020), \u2018We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy\u2019, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Bia\u0142ystok, PL (2019) and \u2018Unputdownable\u2019, White Cubicle, London, UK (2018).

Selected group exhibitions include \u2018Support Structures\u2019, Gathering, London (2023), \u2018Swiat nie wierzy lzom\u2019, Galeria Arsenal, Bia\u0142ystok, Poland (2022), \u2018London Open 2022\u2019, Whitechapel Gallery, London Uk (2022), \u2018New Contemporaries 2021\u2019, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021), \u201826 Degrees East\u2019, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium (2020), \u2018Age of Ephemerality\u2019, X Museum, Beijing, CN (2020), 'Clay TM\u2019, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2020) and \u2018Bold Tendencies 2020\u2019, London, UK (2020). In 2020 Zajko was the recipient of the Bow Graduation Studio Award.

Visit: RAFA\u0141 ZAJKO CLOCKING OFF open now and runs until 26th November 2023: https://queercircle.org/rafal/

Nearest tube: North Greenwich. Free entry.

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Rafal's website is: https://www.rafal-zajko.com/

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