Aleksandra Waliszewska

Her surreal, horrific, highly symbolic, and sometimes gory work has been compared to Hieronymous Bosch and Francisco de Goya, and her style has been called "gothic".

Waliszewska has stated that Pieter Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a favorite of hers, and that art has been in decline since the Quattrocento, but also claims the 16th-century Polish artists Tomasz Treter and Jan Ziarnko as influences.

She credits a 2006 viewing of the Japanese film Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space with allowing her to move her focus away from "high art".

[3][1] She has had an interest in fashion design since her teens, and has mentioned Chloë Sevigny's outfit in the music video for the Sonic Youth song "Sugar Kane" as a point of reference.

[3] She has also collaborated with Maurizio Cattelan, Joan Cornellà, Warren Ellis, Allison Schulnik, David Tibet and Szczepan Twardoch.