On this page, you will find a selection of projects by Anna Rabbit.
Textile sculpture by Anna Rabbit, 3 parts. Doll – 43x20x20 cm, textile Carnival squash – 8x8x8 cm, textile. Mini-book – A6, paper. http://www.annarabbit.com Currently in the collection of the Kraków Toy Museum – https://muzeumzabawekrakow.pl/
In a world overflowing with textile waste, I made a promise—to take responsibility for every piece of fabric that comes into my life. Sometimes, I even welcome the discarded scraps of others (more on that in a moment). Donating clothes is no longer the perfect solution—if it ever truly was. Landfills and the coastlines of developing countries are now heavy with the weight of our unwanted garments. I decided to fight back—one doll at a time.
These artworks are now part of the collection of Fundacja Żydowski Lublin and was first presented during the opening event of the project Mój Lublin. The program combines past and present, encouraging people to rediscover ulica Lubartowska and its rich cultural heritage.
This is another of my “travel” sketchbooks, a short one, only 13 pages, all dedicated to Jewish heritage buildings in Lublin, Poland.
This new sketchbook on Lublin is different: it’s rooted in place and history, but it still carries that sense of traveling through drawing. Every page is focused on the Jewish heritage of the city, a way for me to explore and reinterpret its cultural memory through illustration.
The Creature Book
This sketchbook was created as part of my diploma project at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków
Faculty of Painting, Postgraduate Studies 2023–2025
Diploma supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hab. Grzegorz Sztwiertnia
The Creature Book
This book (18.5 × 21.5 cm) features on its cover a strange creature based on the tattoo on my back — itself inspired by an eighteenth-century engraving. Inside are illustrations exploring the relationship between humans and animals.
Most of these drawings were never developed into larger works, which is why I treat this book as an independent artwork rather than a preparatory sketchbook. This is reinforced by the fact that most of its pages contain fully finished illustrations rather than sketches.
52 pages
“Braciszek i Siostrzyczka”, film by Wojtek Łubianka, Anna Rabbit & Mariusz Szydel.
Film zrealizowany w ramach zajęć Pracowni Interdyscyplinarnej pod kierunkiem dr hab. Joanny Kaiser-Plaskowskiej oraz mgr Agnieszki Sajdy na Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie. 2025 … Our short film Braciszek i Siostrzyczka is a collaborative experimental work, loosely inspired by the early part of the Brothers Grimm fairytale Brother and Sister. Rather than attempting a faithful adaptation, we approach the narrative as a symbolic framework — a haunted echo — enabling a contemporary exploration of transformation, pursuit, and entanglement within family bonds and forested spaces.
For Anna Rabbit, sketchbooks and artbooks are an essential part of her creative process. They offer a space to experiment, explore ideas, and document her artistic journey. These personal collections allow Anna to work freely, without the constraints of traditional art spaces, capturing raw moments of creativity and transformation.
Flipping through this sketchbook, which I worked on between 2023 and 2025, feels a bit like stepping into a fragmented diary—one that doesn’t follow a clear timeline but instead jumps between memories, characters, and fleeting moments. There’s no single theme holding it all together, but a quiet thread runs through: observation, reflection, and imagination. Many of the pages are filled with animal sketches—some drawn from life, others from memory or dreams. There are also dozens of figure drawings, quick and raw, done during model classes at ASP Kraków. One of the more personal pages is a portrait of my mom’s cousin as an adult he never became—someone I never met, someone who died young, before he had the chance to become the adult he might have been. Scattered throughout are quotes from Bulgakov and Dostoevsky—lines that echoed in my head while drawing, or that I scribbled down because they made the world feel more bearable, or stranger, or truer. One spread shows a small moment: me and a friend (who hates umbrellas) walking together beneath one anyway. Another page holds a portrait of a witch with a toad. There’s also work from a book project I illustrated in 2024—Kafka’s A Hunger Artist. The drawings from that series are quieter, more restrained, but still a part of the same universe this sketchbook comes from. Some of these pages feel deeply personal; others are just playful or experimental. It’s not a perfect sketchbook, but it’s honest—and every drawing, even the ones I’d rather hide, is a kind of note to myself.
Flipping through my sketchbook, which I started sometime during the pandemic and completed last year. During that time, I struggled with agoraphobia and couldn’t leave the house. To cope, I came up with this little project—choosing Edinburgh at random (I had never been there, but I knew it was beautiful)—where I would create travel sketches by “walking” through an unfamiliar city using Google Street View. I filled about 80% of the notebook during the pandemic but then abandoned it until last year, when I showed it to a relatively new friend—who, coincidentally, is from Edinburgh. When I first started this project, I didn’t know them yet. All of the dried plants are from my pen pal in Edinburgh (someone I met on Instagram but have never met in person), who was kind enough to collect them and send them to me in a letter. Most of them are glued onto the pages with drawings of places where they were originally found. Some of the sketches were added later at the request of my new friend from Edinburgh—depicting the street he grew up on, his high school, and other personal landmarks. To this day, I still struggle greatly with the fear of leaving my house, especially when it comes to traveling. I haven’t left the country since 2020. And I still have never been to Edinburgh.
Flipping through my sketchbook, which I started sometime in January 2024 and completed on March 19, 2025. It contains some random illustrations, as well as artwork I created for illustrating The Hunger Artist (a short story by Franz Kafka) and Crossbreed (another short story by Kafka). There’s also a sketch from Massolit bookstore/café in Kraków, Poland, linocut stamps I made for my friends and family, and many other things.
Anna hosts workshops on sketchbook creation; check it out if you are interested in sketchbooks and artbooks.
“Searching for Myself” solo exhibit.
Comics Museum, Sarego 7/10A, Kraków.
Curator: Artur Wabik.
The exhibition features illustrations in which the artist continues her long-standing reflections on her identity.
Inspired by the phrase “my body is my temple,” she has created a series of illustrations where tattoo aesthetics collide with traditional decorations of the bimah – a raised platform in a synagogue, often adorned with a canopy or dome. Carved, polychromed beams, columns, and balustrades are to the artist like clavicles, hips, and feet – elements of a structure whose meaning is revealed only when viewed as a whole. The narrative also includes the artist’s memories of her family home and childhood. The comic-like series was prepared specifically for this occasion.
Some of the works from this exhibit are available for sale to institutions or private collectors. Please send request to annarabbit.contact@gmail.com
The exhibition was open from June 23 to July 7, 2024.
Illustration created for the exhibit “Searching for Myself”, June 2024.
Self-portrait with seashells, paper, ink, pen, A3, 2024.
Created for solo exhibit “Searching for Myself”, June 2024.
My Academy, short film by Anna Rabbit (2025)
“My Academy” is a short experimental film and a personal reflection on my time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków — a period now coming to an end. The work, 206 seconds in length, corresponds symbolically to the Academy’s 206th anniversary, framing the piece within a temporal container, much like a confined space where something strange and elusive can unfold. The film emerges from my experience of returning to academic life after a seven-year break. It is not only a meditation on the act of studying again, but also an exploration of the profound emotional landscape that accompanied this return — a landscape marked by anxiety, vulnerability, and a persistent sense of unbelonging. Although My Academy is ostensibly about the Academy, it was entirely filmed within the building where I live. Throughout this period, the difficulty of leaving home, of being seen, became central to my daily reality. Thus, the physical site of the film — my apartment — stands in for the broader institution, embodying both its presence and my distance from it. Much of the film draws from the vivid anxiety dreams I experienced during this time: dreams of being back at school, being unprepared, being exposed. These fragmented, disorienting visions informed the structure and atmosphere of the piece. My Academy unfolds like one of these dreams — a collage of feelings, images, and fleeting narratives that resist clear explanation. The project is heavily influenced by David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Twin Peaks, particularly in how they capture the uncanny within the mundane — how a hallway can stretch endlessly, how a whisper can resonate with thunderous intensity. My Academy seeks to find beauty in distortion, intimacy in unease.
This film was created within the Interdisciplinary Studio curated by Prof. Zbigniew Bajek, PhD, and Jędrzej Krzyszkowski, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków during the 2024/2025 academic year.
Hiding and Rescuing: Saska Kępa and Grochów during the Holocaust (Spacerownik) – illustrations, 2024.
This section showcases Anna Rabbit’s works inspired by sashiko stitching—a traditional Japanese embroidery technique rooted in sustainability and craftsmanship. Combining heritage methods with a modern, zero-waste approach, these pieces transform discarded fabrics into meaningful, wearable art.
Anna also hosts workshops on sashiko, sharing its history, techniques, and creative possibilities with participants of all skill levels.
Objects sewn from textile waste
The objects are created from clothes and textiles that Anna and her family have outgrown, or from items damaged by her pets, rabbits and rats. Some materials have been found or generously donated. Each piece tells a story of reuse and transformation, turning discarded fabrics into unique, meaningful works of art.
Sketchbook cover, 20×20, 2025.
Becoming Cha U Kao, Artbook (flip-through) Tour 2023/2024
“Becoming Cha-U-Kao” is an introspective art book exploring the experience of living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), focusing on the symptom of shifting identity and the struggle to perceive oneself as a stable, defined person. Inspired by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s portrayals of the performer Cha-U-Kao, the project reimagines her image as a mirror for contemporary identity fragmentation. The book was created as part of a costume design project within the Interdisciplinary Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków during the 2023–2024 academic year, under the supervision of Professor Zbigniew Bajek. The project includes original tattoo designs, costume concepts, and fabric prints by Anna Rabbit. The bag featured in the project was sewn by Albina Krut using a fabric designed by Anna. The tattoo on the shoulder was executed by Władysława Goja, while the leg tattoo was both designed and executed by Anna herself.
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