Gulay Yigiter Gawronski

My practice creates a sensory research space centered on time, memory, and human experience.Working with ceramics, weaving, miniature, and mixed media, I focus on cultural memory, the inner voice, migration, and the invisible “shells” individuals carry.Materials serve both as witnesses and as vehicles, revealing traces of the past across contemporary surfaces.

Artistic Approach

My work explores the temporal and spatial layers of individual and collective memory.
Invisible routes of migration, cultural traces, and the silent narratives people carry within themselves form the core of my practice. Thinking through material is both a method of research and a way of building a sensory archive. Each project seeks to open an echo between past and present, inviting the viewer into this field of quiet perception.

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Master's Thesis 2011

Reflection of the Shell Concept in Individuals onto Ceramic Shapes

This work explores the processes of self-protection, reshaping, and creating psychological boundaries in individuals through the metaphor of "shell."

Ceramic forms are conceived as carriers representing the inner layers of humans, defense mechanisms, and the changing perception of self over time.

Through natural textures, surface tensions, and organic forms, the relationship between body, memory, and transformation is materialized.

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2025 Polenezköy

Beyond Time – Intersecting Traces

“Beyond Time – Intersecting Traces” is a special selection of 12 works that renders the shared memory of Poland and Turkey visible through a sensory journey woven between sound, surface, and remembrance.
The silent traces of the past find new life in the senses of the present.

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This series is a project planned to be completed in 2026, and only selected works from the production process are included here.

Silent Echoes

"Silent Echoes" explores the permeable relationships between time, memory, and the inner voice of humans.

Natural materials, ceramics, weaving, and traditional Asian production techniques come together to make visible the sensory traces of memory.

The project aims to offer an experience that makes tangible the silent testimony of cultural signs carried from the past to the present.

"Will time one day carry our voice too?"

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Project

Take a Breath

Take a Breath is a project that explores an inner unity of the nature–human–art relationship.

The works draw inspiration from natural shell formations and nature's own rhythm; the plasticity of ceramic material combines with organic textures to transform into breathing surfaces.

The project draws attention to how the layers that form an individual's identity in today's world increasingly become a constraining "shell." It leaves a calm call through art to the essence trapped between sociological and psychological burdens, roles, and statuses:

"Take a breath."

Returning to nature, the raw state of material, and inner rhythm are both a search and a remembrance in this project.

The collection consists of 10 works produced in different periods.

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Art Therapy

Art therapy is an inner exploration space where colors, surfaces, and movement speak where words fall short. In this process, the individual rediscovers their own emotions in the texture of clay, the rhythm of a line, the vibration of a color.

My art therapy approach, in line with my training and artistic production, is a sensory method shaped by ceramics, tactile materials, and creative expression techniques. The goal is not to produce a "work of art," but to accompany the person in touching their inner world in a safe space, softening their shells, and breathing toward their essence.

Art therapy is the person's journey back to themselves; a healing process that makes visible the voice, silence, and inner space.

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Independent Works

A multilayered selection that brings together original works, interpretations, and special designs produced in different periods. Historical references, cultural symbols, and creative rereadings of classical period works reflect the artist's personal investigations into memory, form, tradition, and the act of recreation. Each work carries its own texture and voice, independent of the sources from which it draws inspiration.

This section makes visible the artist's intuitive and conceptual pauses that have formed over time within a single whole.

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Hacettepe University Ankara, Türkiye Faculty of Fine Art

Ceramic Design (BA.Honours Degree)

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Near East University Nicosia, Cyprus Faculty of Fine Art and Design

Mix media (Master of Arts)

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Süleyman Demirel University Isparta,Türkiye Faculty of Education

Pedagogy

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Kadir Has University Istanbul,Türkiye Faculty of Fine Art and Design

Certificate of Art Therapy