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Smog-eating mural goes up on Warsaw wall

Flower power: Warsaw’s anti-smog mural. Press materials/Good Looking Studio

The mural will have the same ecological effect as planting 720 trees.

The wall-climbing artist whose avian murals have taken 60s housing estate to new heights

After being approached for ideas to lend a new lease of life to the complex, artist Wojciech Rokosz decided on a bird theme to compliment the surrounding trees and reference the richness of the local birdlife.

Huge Matejko reproduction with ‘modern twist’ appears on Paris street corner

The 6 m wide by 3.5 m high painting in the city’s Rue de Montmorency, shows street artist Pascal Boyart’s "Pensées du bouffon rouge" (Thoughts of the red jester) which he calls a “reprise” of Matejko’s famous Stańczyk painting “with a few additions from our time”.

Town-scape: artist turns head with amazing depictions of cities

Famed for his urban landscapes, Tytus Brzozowski is now working on a project to paint 13 cities with a Polish connection.

Colourful outbreak of mural-osis transforms Warsaw district

Originally motivated by their ambition to provide the area with a visual identity, Bakcyl Studio’s large-scale art has now seen the district emerge as a legitimate rival to the capital’s Praga district as the city’s mural heartland.

She’s the face behind some of the biggest brand campaigns going, but who is Olka Osadzińska?

TFN’s Alex Webber caught up with Olka to find out how she went from medical school dropout to becoming one of Poland’s leading creative exports with a client-base that reads like a who’s who of contemporary brands.

Artist brings Modlin fortress back to life with stunning murals depicting the past

An artist whose work went viral last year after he transferred the urban concept of street art to the Polish countryside is back in the news after revealing the fruits of his latest endeavour at the historic Modlin Fortress.

Sign here: new mural celebrates the ancient art of lettering

A new mural celebrating the art of lettering with a beautifully painted alphabet has appeared in a Warsaw neighbourhood, blending in with its elegant pre-war architecture.

Mural honouring Janusz Korczak to be painted in Italy

A mural honouring Janusz Korczak, a Polish paediatrician, teacher, writer and children's rights advocate of Jewish descent who was murdered by the Germans during WWII, will be unveiled in Florence, Italy, on January 27.

Barnstorming: the artist who brings the past back to life on the side of barns in stunning murals

Arkadiusz Andrejkow pays homage to the people who once worked the land in a series of breath-taking paintings on the side of old farm buildings.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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