Inca Starzinsky is a London-based artist and designer. She graduated from Central St Martins with an honours degree in graphic design. In the last year of her BA, she spend most of her time screen printing in the printmaking department of Central St Martins, which after graduation led to a five-year position there as artist-in-residence.

Screen printing became her main focus. Wanting to move her prints away from paper and towards applying print to three dimensional objects led her to pursue a Masters degree in printed textiles at the Royal College of Art.

Not necessarily wanting to pursue a career in the textile industry, she continued working as a graphic designer while developing her own practice making accressories and fashion jewellery. She worked as a designer and editor at Graphic magazine (issues 1-9), and on a collaborative project with shoe brand United Nude, which led to a period as creative director for the Terra Plana and Vivo brands. To have more time to focus on personal work, she subsequently worked part-time for Laurence King Publishing for several years, working closely with Magma to create around 100 successful games and gifts. During that time she started a small label under her own name making printed perspex jewellery, selling in major museum shops around the world.

Her interest in working in a more three-dimensional way with prints and colours continued, which led her to do a short course in 3D printing at the London College of Fashion. In 2019 she began studying part-time at K2 Jewellery Academy in London for a period of three years. This broadened her skills and knowledge in jewellery making and gave her the confidence to work in the sculptural way she had always wanted. Over these three years her main focus was to find a unique and interesting way to combine her original work and interest in paint and colour with sculptural forms (this process is documented in the archive section).

Since 2022 Inca has her own studio in East London designing and making contemporary jewellery, and launched her first collection in precious and non-precious metals in 2023.

About Inca’s work

Inca Starzinsky strives to find a fundamental balance between form, material and colour. Her work can best be described as contemporary objects derived from a concept and rationalised to give them purpose.

Most projects are born from an experience, a memory or from the desire to capture a moment; attempting to turn them into physical realities for others to experience.

For general enquiries please get in touch via the contact page.

A selection of work is available at House On Mars Gallery.