Gaby Mlynarczyk is a London based artist and researcher whose work explores repair, ecological materiality and speculative futures through ceramics and experimental materials. Her work is informed by contemporary philosophies of material and ecological thought.

Recent highlights include Crea Venice jury award for quality of research, featured artist in Clay in Conversation at the Univeristy of Westminster, participation in Ceramic Art London and shortlisting for the V&A mixed media residency.

In my practice, I draw from new materialist and posthuman thinking, which both invite a shift in how we understand materials and our relationship to them. New materialism proposes that matter isn’t passive or inert, but alive with its own kind of agency — capable of influencing us just as we shape it. I experience this constantly in the studio: the clay resists, cracks, or flows in unexpected ways, and those reactions become part of the work’s meaning. Posthuman theory extends this idea further, reminding us that humans are not separate from the world we shape — we are part of a larger, entangled system of materials, species, and environments. These ideas guide my approach to making: I treat repair as a collaboration between myself and the materials, a conversation that reflects care, coexistence, and the possibility of regeneration.