Kasia Dudkiewicz: Exploring Material, Memory, and the Art of Prototypes
Romulus Folio is thrilled to announce that Kasia Dudkiewicz will feature in our forthcoming Prototypes group exhibition, launching 6 February 2026. Kasia, a fibre artist based in the Macedon Ranges, brings a deeply personal yet universally resonant approach to sculptural textile work, exploring texture, tension, and the emotional resonance of material.
A Quiet Alchemy of Fibre and Form
Kasia’s practice is rooted in transformation. Working with natural fibres such as cotton, wool, and jute, she hand knots, loops, and layers materials to create sculptural forms that are as tactile as they are conceptual. Each work invites closeness, asking the viewer to slow down, reflect, and feel the invisible currents of memory, identity, and emergence.
Her work engages with several conceptual dimensions:
Repetition as meditation: The act of knotting and layering becomes a rhythm that mirrors interior states of undoing and becoming.
Tension and softness: Oppositions between structure and surrender, control and letting go, reveal emotional landscapes of resilience and vulnerability.
Material as memory: Natural fibres hold traces of hand-making, offering a tactile bridge between private introspection and public encounter.
Space and connection: While intimate in scale, her installations dialogue with space, inviting viewers to feel, pause, and connect.
Through these processes, Kasia transforms material into meaning, creating work that is both personal and relational, a quiet alchemy of fibre and form.
Prototypes: Conceptual Depth and Exhibition Theme
Prototypes is an exhibition about beginnings, iteration, and emergence. The term “prototype” evokes experimentation: a first form, a test, a possibility. The exhibition examines how artistic ideas evolve, how practices shift, and how works emerge from process rather than arriving as finished products.
Conceptually, Prototypes explores:
Evolution of ideas: Witnessing where creative ideas begin and how they transform through practice.
Interplay of disciplines: Highlighting hybrid practices that blur art, design, and architecture.
Identity and iteration: Reflecting personal, emotional, and material transformation as part of the creative process.
Invitation to participation: Encouraging viewers to consider the unfolding nature of meaning and form.
Within this context, Kasia’s sculptural fibre works become living prototypes, material manifestations of process, introspection, and emotional resonance. Her practice embodies the exhibition’s ethos: exploration, transformation, and the ongoing dialogue between idea, hand, and space.
Looking Ahead
We are excited to share Kasia’s work alongside artists, Arabella Strachan and Lucia Medina, in Prototypes and invite our audience to engage with the evolving conversation between material, process, and meaning.
Launching our Romulus program for 2026, Prototypes is an invitation, to witness the unfolding of ideas, the evolution of form, and the quiet power of art as a process of becoming.
Stay with us on this journey of making, experimentation, and transformation.