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Stunning mural of musical legend Czesław Niemen appears in Warsaw suburb

Situated deep in the suburbs, the artwork richly references the life and works of the singer-songwriter with features including gold record discs in place of Niemen’s eyes in a nod to his best-selling album, Dziwny jest ten świat (The World Is Strange). Kalbar/TFN

The new mural has been unveiled in the same Warsaw district that helped inspire one of his most famous hits, Sen o Warszawie (Dream About Warsaw).

Intl. team create beautiful alphabet mural on Warsaw wall

The “Wallphabet”, as it is called, features the 26 letters of the alphabet, all in different fonts or styles of lettering, from elegant cursive handwriting to chunkier designs.

Snapper tours whole country to capture over 500 patriotic murals

Photographer Wojciech Wilczyk, whose incredible work will be published in a 512-page book entitled “Słownik polsko-polski”, found the incredible murals depicting Polish heroes in virtually every city.

Picasso’s ‘Mermaid’ returns to apartment wall 66 years after being washed off

During a visit to Warsaw in 1948, Picasso famously drew a mermaid – the symbol of Warsaw - on the wall of an apartment. A few years later, the owner got rid of it and the drawing was feared lost forever. Until now…

Women of the revolution: Solidarity heroes remembered in series of stunning murals

Painted onto pillars beneath the Gdańsk Strzyża station, the mural is a tribute to all the women who fought for a free Poland during communism and acts as a reminder of their role in the historic events that began in Pomerania in August 1980, and then spilled across the whole country.

Totally wall-some: with its roots in street art, one Warsaw company has taken the ad world by storm with its outrageous murals

Championing an original and “hand crafted” approach to advertising, the Good Looking Studio is re-writing the rule book.

The big picture, quite literally! Warsaw artist transforms city look with gorgeous huge murals

Already widely celebrated for his surreal watercolours of Polish cities, acclaimed artist Tytus Brzozowski has seen his work given the XXL treatment with the unveiling of a stunning 18-metre tall mural running along the side of a building housing the capital’s Municipal Roads Authority.

The street artist with a PhD whose work is covering the globe

Mariusz Waras broke the stereotype of a street artist being just a step away from a vandal by obtaining his PhD in 2013 and running the Street Art Studio at the Academy of Art in Szczecin’s Faculty of Painting and New Media.

Wall inspiring: the duo behind some of Poland’s most impressive, and largest street art

The work by Etam Cru can been seen around the world, and has taken Polish street art to a new level.

Artist creates incredible watercolours of Warsaw as you’ve never seen it before

Artist uses the past and present to reimagine Warsaw’s 19th century charm.

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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

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