Visual Artist | Painting, Digital Photography & Object-Based Work

MATERIAL & TIME

Justyna Borucka is a Polish-born mixed-media artist whose early childhood in northern Italy shaped a lasting affinity with Mediterranean landscape. Educated in London and based in Greece, her practice is conceptually rooted in the Greek τόπος. She investigates material transformation, natural phenomena, and the relationship between landscape and abstraction.

After graduating with a First Class Degree from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London (2009), she relocated her studio to the Greek islands. The Mediterranean environment – its geology, light, erosion, sea and marble – became integral to the evolution of her work.

Her practice has developed through distinct yet interconnected bodies of work: from early investigations using animal bones as material and symbol, through chromatic studies of the Aegean in The Blue, Iridescences, to marble-dust compositions, and later structural inquiries into atomic formations and material systems.

Her current research expands this inquiry across scales, examining material continuity from the microscopic to the geological. Engaging concepts of deep time, stratification and embodied terrain, the work develops through sustained interdisciplinary dialogue, including geological insight connected to projects such as Topos Embodied at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Across series including Metamorphosis: Bones and Colours, The Blue, Iridescences, Paros New Earth, and The Atomic Series, Borucka approaches τόπος not as geography, but as temporal and elemental field, a temporal and elemental field, a site where matter registers duration, transformation, and structural presence.