MUZEUM RZEMIOSŁA W KROŚCIE
Z krosna do Krosna
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC LINEN CLOTH BIENNIAL

PARTICIPANTS 8TH IALCB 2014

Artist: ELWIRA SZTETNER
Country: POLAND
Title: Moss
Size: 50 x 54 cm
Technique: Gobelin tapestry
Year: 2014
Biography:

Elwira Sztetner graduated from the Folk University of Handicraft in Wzdów, Poland and then from the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland with a degree in Painting under the tuition of prof. Dorota Grynczel. She works with unique textiles and drawing. Elwira has participated in group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: the 13th International Textile Triennial in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź in 2010; a distinction at the “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial held by the Museum of Crafts in Krosno in 2010; the International Drawing Triennial in Wrocław in 2012; the “Po prostu papier” exhibition in the “haloGaleria” Gallery in Olsztyn, Poland, in 2013; a nomination for prize at the 12th Polish National Exhibition of the Unique Textiles in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź in 2013; and the Bielsko-Biała City Prize at the International Artistic Textile Triennial in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2013. She has also held many solo exhibitions, such as: the solo exhibition of textile in the Sienna Gallery in Warsaw, Poland in 2011; the “Czasem przetkane” solo exhibition in the “Wystawa” Gallery in Warsaw in 2013; and the solo exhibition in the Joanna Białobrzeska Didasko Middle School Gallery in Warsaw in 2013. Elwira has been the recipient of the awards, such as: the “Gobelin Warszawski” Prize and the Masovia Voivode Prize under the patronage of the prof. Józef Szajna in 2006.