Joanna Migut

visual artist

drawing of a girl sleeping on top of a pink planet

mostly about


I make drawings and

short animations

drawing of two people are in the jungle looking up at the moon in the sky
drawing of a girl holding a crescent moon in her hand and putting it next to her cheek

my feelings for the

‘shooting star travels’

short animation

2023

Moon

sometimes about travelling in Space

I make stories about other important things too...

‘how not to take a plane‘

animation series

2021

sometimes I make peculiar things

SOUND

ON

Once there was a song travelling around. She found Calgary Woods and liked it so much that she decided to settle down there. The song asked the trees to make a little house for her to stay. Then, she asked the sea for some shells to build the roof of her house. The birds offered to lend her their legs so the house could stay strong against the wind. And a big flower grew out of the wall like a trumpet so everyone could hear the beautiful song. And now the song lives happily on the Isle of Mull singing for us in the woods.

a photo of various elements - copper tube, carved wooden feather, bird's house and a piece of slate, all laid out nicely on a piece of thick wood

This animation is a dream

I once had

‘I capture the Moon’

short animation

music by Beata Migut and Vangelis Makriyannakis

2023

mm

mm

a photograph of a sculpture hanging from the ceiling of a building. it has a circular shape - like a portal and is multicoloured, rainbow coloured with fairy lights shining on it.

I like

storytelling

a small cardboard box hanging on a grey wall. there is a drawing of a boy and a girl inside the box being cramped in a small space. there are raindrops on the inside walls of the box as well as on the outside. the colours are blue and orange.
a small yellow box with a blue frame hanging on the grey wall showing a cut-out drawing of a girl sitting and drinking wine and smoking a cigarette. the smoke she is blowing out is made of paper mache and glitter. There re words written inside.

group exhibition Generators Projects Dundee, 2021

1

a girl stuck in a box, a window cell, a cell spitting out thoughts, words writing on walls, searching for a way out

2

I am a morning person

3

a trip to inner self on

a rainy day

4

I am blue and that’s OK

5

no matter what, always with the head in the clouds, forever chasing the Sun

6

I want OUT

7

on day seven I find rest climbing through the magic portal to the promised land

I made work that reflected my own experience of the first lockdown and the emotions related to the restrictions that we all struggled with. The story is build as a set of 7 dioramas (not unlike the mythical creation of the World) and a free hanging sculpture representing the rebirth.

The story follows

a hero’s journey - from being imprisoned and trapped to the grand scape, while the creative force within her keeps her sane

a cut-out drawing showing a girl doing a yoga pose - downward dog and a red rising sun behind her with spiky rays. the box is yellow, the girl is covered in glitter.
a small cardboard box is hanging on a grey wall. inside there is a drawing of a girl. her top half is coming from the bottom of the box and her bottom half is climbing up inside the box. the colours are purple and fluorescent yellow.
there is a small box hanging on a grey wall. Inside there is a cut-out drawing of a girl sitting in a box with a cut-out yellow sun above her and two pink cut-out clouds around her. there is writing around the outside walls of the box
a blue box with orange stars on its walls is hanging on a grey wall. inside the box there is a cut-out drawing of a girl painted in blue with two glitter lines on her cheeks - she is crying. there are blue clouds above her head. everything is blue

I often get inspired by something that happened or

a piece of writing

a drawing showing two people kissing with eyes closed, transferring pink breath from one to another

‘...her tongue was relaxed and soft when she reached it out to me with devotion. I saw her soul flickering in the depths of her dark throat...’

Memories of a Polar Bear // Yoko Tawada

21/20/2020

planetary kiss of Jupiter and Saturn

//closest in 400 years

a close-up drawing of two profile heads. a man and a woman are kissing with eyes closed and transfer blue breath from one to another

digital portraits

a digital drawing of a boy sitting with his eyes closed. He has blond hair and pale skin. Green plants are climbing on top of him twisting their leaves around his neck. They have small blue flowers on their ends. The background is orange.
a digital portrait drawing of a girl with pale skin, a long face and long green wavy hair. She is covering her right eye with a big chrysanthemum flower which is yellow ochre and red.

of people I have met

a digital portrait drawing of a person with red hair and pale skin sitting bare-chested with their eyes closed. there is a white halo around their head. orchid flowers are covering their eyes. the background is dark blue.

I make

a digital poster showing a hand holding a ladybird against a blue sky. there is a green meadow and yellow flowers. at the bottom the black letters saying 'meadow' with a red flower instead of the letter 'o'

when I miss

summer I Make

a digital drawing. close up of two feel lying in the grass with the grass blades between the toes. the grass is green and the sun is shining above them. the sky is blue.

posters

I feel very close to Nature

a painting of a girl on a pink background. She has her eyes closed and her head raised. she is blushing. A big yellow sunflower is covering her face and is putting its green leaf around her neck.

get in touch

joannamigut@outlook.com

instagram @joannamigut

vimeo.com/joannamigut

a digital drawing of a green cactus plant with a yellow flower and red spikes standing on a table inside a clay pot.

I promise I am not a cactus

perhaps a cat