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

PARTICIPANTS 9TH IALCB 2016

Artist: BOGUSŁAWA KOSZAŁKA
Country: POLAND
Title: Empty Nests
Size: 50 x 50 x 50 cm
Technique: artist's own technique: glued and wet-formed, montage, wounded on metal construction
Year: 2016
Biography:

Bogusława Koszałka was born in 1960 in Gryfice, Poland. She graduated from the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now University of Arts) in Poznań in 1987 with a degree in artistic education and drawing. She completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Textile and Fashion Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, specialising in design. Since 2013 she has been an academic teacher at the Faculty of Design of the West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin, Poland. In her artistic work she focuses on the organisation of space with the use of structural objects. Her works are related to the multiplicative natural phenomena. Compound projects created by Bogusława are free interpretation of phenomena observed by her in nature. She has participated in a dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her awards and distinctions include: Grand Prix at the “Z krosna do Krosna” 4th International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno in 2006; the ERA PART Statuette at the Polish National Painting and Unique Textile Biennial in the Museum of the City of Gdynia, Poland in 2007; distinction at the 8th International Baltic Triennial of Miniature Textiles in the Museum of the City of Gdynia in 2010; Grand Prix at the 7th Polish National Painting and Unique Textile Biennial in Gdynia in 2013; and nomination for the prize for best artwork at the 13th Polish National Exhibition of the Unique Textiles in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź in 2016.

Motto: Pustą przestrzeń można wypełnić, chociażby lnianą nicią. Jednak w magiczny sposób można wykreować nicią coś co pustką przecież nie jest a jednak wywołuje w nas jej wrażenie, tak jak opuszczone gniazdo.