ABOUT

AGA KUBISH ARE
Aga Kubish is a fine artist and printmaker based in Wales, UK. She works across drawing, printmaking, photography and artist’s books, developing large-scale works grounded in what she describes as Human Rooting — an embodied methodology of establishing presence within complex, interconnected systems.
At the centre of her practice are monumental linocuts, often printed entirely by hand without a press. Using improvised, physical methods of pressure, Kubish treats the act of printing as an extension of drawing — a durational, bodily process that embeds gesture directly into the structure of the image. This approach allows the work to carry not only visual complexity, but also a record of time, effort and physical engagement.
Her work explores organic and relational networks: root systems, botanical structures, architectural frameworks and layered environments that function as spatial fields rather than static images. Rather than simplifying complexity, Kubish inhabits it, allowing order to emerge gradually through dense, repetitive mark-making. Within these intricate systems, a human trajectory becomes visible — not as control, but as presence.
She discovered printmaking in 2021, which has since become central to her practice.
Aga is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (elected 2022). Her large linocut Green Househas been acquired for the RE Diploma Collection. In 2026 she became a member of the Bath Society of Artists.
In 2025, she founded and directed ART GALLERY & STUDIO in Weston-super-Mare, curating several group and solo exhibitions and fostering collaborative relationships between artists and audiences. Following the closure of the space, she returned her focus to her own studio-based and research-led practice.
Her work is informed by the visual language of historical engraving and print traditions, including hatching and dotwork, alongside an ongoing interest in traditional bookbinding and plant-based photographic processes. Working predominantly in black ink and at large scale, she embraces slow, labour-intensive methods that emphasise duration, structure and material presence.
She draws inspiration from artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Katsushika Hokusai and Alphonse Mucha, while developing a distinctly contemporary visual language rooted in systems, perception and embodied experience.
Since 2025, Aga has been an Ambassador for St Cuthbert’s Mill.
She is currently completing an MA in Fine Art (Printmaking) at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
AWARDS:
2025
PRINTFEST 2025, Ulverston, Printmaker's Printmaker Award
2024
BA PRINT PRIZE 2024, Bath Society of Artist Annual 119th Open Exhibition at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath
The Essdee Award Winner at PRINTFEST 2024 in Ulverston
The Highly Commended certificate at RBSA Friends Exhibition in Birmingham
2023
Canns Down Press Prize for 'Panoramix' at RE Original Prints Exhibition in London
2022
Society of Wood Engravers Prize for 'Green House' at  International Original Print Exhibition, London
EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS:
2027:

Kitchen in the Wild, Cornwall

2026:

Degree Show, MA Fine Art: Printmaking, UWE Bristol

Printfest 2026, Ulverston, Cumbria

RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London 

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Print Prize, Birmingham

Speaker, Paper Symposium, 'Habitat' - Working at Scale with Paper, UWE Bristol / CFPR

2025:
120th Annual Open Exhibition, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedra
RWA 172 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol
Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition 2025, London
Printfest 2025, Ulverston, Cumbria
Sanctuary, Heart of the Tribe, Glastonbury
RWA Biennal Open 2025: Paper Works, Bristol 
2024:
Bath Society of Artist Annual 119th Open Exhibition at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Open Exhibition 2024, Sidmouth
Society of Botanical Artists, Plantae 2024, online  >> more
JACKSON’S ART PRIZE 2024 long listed >> more
SOLO Exhibition 'Silent Narratives', ART GALLERY & STUDIO by Aga Kubish, Weston-super-Mare
RE Original Prints 2024, Bankside Gallery, London
PRINTFEST2024, Ulverston
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Print Prize, Birmingham
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Friends Exhibition, Birmingham
2023:
Small but Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London
Solo Exhibition at Heart of the Tribe, Glastonbury
118th Open Exhibition, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London 
2022:
69th Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
International Original Print Exhibition, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London 
Summer Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London  
Steam Art Exhibition, Tropicana, Weston super Mare
117th Annual Exhibition, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Society of Botanical Artists, Plantae 2022, Mall Galleries, London
Solo Exhibition, Heart of The Tribe Gallery, Glastonbury
Core Artists Showcase, Heart of The Tribe Gallery, Glastonbury 
2021:
Great Bow Wharf Gallery, Langport 
Participation in the COW 2020 ILLUSTRATION BIENNALE, Dnipro, Ukraine
Heart of the Tribe, Glastonbury 
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