Marcelina Amelia

Marcelina Amelia is a multidisciplinary artist born in Częstochowa, Poland, and based in Brighton, UK. A studio member at Phoenix Art Space, her practice spans painting, print, textiles, photography, installation, video, and performance. Drawing from her Polish heritage, she explores migration, motherhood, feminism, spirituality, mental health, personal rituals, dreams, and the transformative power of storytelling. Her work reflects a fascination with memory, both personal and collective, and the ways in which bodies, memories, and histories remain interconnected. Her visual language brings together folklore and contemporary narratives, childhood memories and emotional rawness, sacred symbols and evolving mythologies of femininity. Through painting, performance, and installation, Amelia explores ritual, embodiment, and states of transformation, drawing attention to the fluid relationships between identity, ancestry, and lived experience.

Amelia is the founder of the feminist art incubator Grupa Łono and a member of the Rethinking Eastern Europe Collective. In 2024, she self-published Mamalia, a deeply personal artist book exploring matrescence and the transformative experience of motherhood. She is a Hastings Contemporary Prize winner and Cass Art Prize shortlisted artist. Her selected institutional exhibitions include Odyssey at Hastings Contemporary; Williamson Museum as part of Liverpool Biennial (2025); Waves at Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka, Poland; Drawing Triennale at Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław; and the International Triennale of Textile at the Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland. Her work has also been presented internationally at Photo London and London Original Print Fair at Somerset House.