Artist: IZABELA WALCZAK
Country: POLAND
Title: Rain - from the Cycle: Drops, GRAND PRIX OF 11TH IALCB 2022 for the set of two art works
Size: 28.5 x 28.5 x 1.7 cm
Technique: embroidery, hand dyeing, material: linen cloth, linen yarn, New Zealand Atropurpurea flax leaves, wood (construction frame)
Year: 2022
Biography: Izabela Walczak studied at the Faculty of Textile and Clothing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in the years 2001-2006. She obtained her diploma in 2006. She has been a participant of over 40 group and individual exhibitions. Multiple laureate of the International Open Air of Wicker Forms. Izabela Walczak works in the field of fibre and textile art, in which she looks for relationships and dependencies between nature and man. In her works, with the help of structures, she shows the correlation of what is internal and external, what is desirable, fearful and problematic in the contemporary world. The artist’s selected exhibitions include: Polish Printmaking & Textile Art, group exhibition, FAB Gallery, Edmonton Canada (2019); 30th Miniartextil Como, Italy (2021); 10th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine (2021); 2nd International Micro Textile Art Exhibition “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine (2021); The 6th Textile Art of Today, Bratislava, Slovakia (2021); Miniartextil Exposition internationale d'art textile contemporain Montrouge, France (2022); “Textile Art of Today” 6 Medzinárodné Trienále Textilu/ Miedzinarodne Trienale Textilu, Poprad, Slovakia (2022); “Sztuka Włókna 2022”, Warsaw, Poland.
Motto: Zmysły deformują, umysł kształtuje - Georges Braque