Artist: AGNIESZKA 'UISCE' JAKUBCZYK
Country: IRELAND
Title: Almost Horizontal Landscape
Size: 28 x 28 cm
Technique: weaving with knitted elements
Year: 2016
Biography:
She graduated from the Folk High School in Turno near Białobrzegi Radomskie, Poland and from the Department of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She is a journeywoman weaver. She works and lives in Ireland. Since several years she has worked in the Rathmines College in Dublin, Ireland as a textile crafts teacher. She works with embroidery and she devotes her attention primarily to Medieval techniques and Medieval aesthetics. She tries to find her own way to express herself in her weaving works. She experiments with combining traditional weaving with other techniques, such as: embroidery, knitting, felt and printing on textile. She has participated in the “20x20” Unique Textile Festival in Gdańsk and Warsaw, Poland in 2016.
Motto: Patrząc na pejzaż, naturalny czy urbanistyczny, widzę go tkanym.