Artist: JADZIA KORZENIOWSKA
Country: POLAND
Title: Memories From the Time of Peace - photo album, NOMINATION FOR THE AWARDS
Size: 36 x 21cm (open album), 21 x 21 cm (closed album)
Technique: embroidery, material: linen fabric, linen threads
Year: 2022
Biography: Jadzia Korzeniowska was born in 1984 in Silesia. A graduate of the Folk University of Artistic Crafts in Wola Sękowa. She completed an instructor's course in artistic handicraft, a journeyman in the professions of an embroiderer and a weaver. She graduated from Fine Arts Education at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn – written work on art history, diploma thesis – ceramic sculpture. In 2012, she won the First Prize in the “Operation Frimousses du Monde de l'UNICEF France” competition. Since 2010, she has participated in subsequent editions of the “Z krosna do Krosna” International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial organized by the Museum of Crafts in Krosno. Since 2018, he has been participating in the Art Naif Festival at the “Szyb Wilson” Gallery in Katowice. Since 2012, she has been running her own ArtKo Creative Studio, where she has organized workshops in various creative fields addressed to various age groups. Currently, the studio is a space for creating her own projects. She has been a handicraft teacher at the Youth Palace in Katowice (since 2019). In 2020, the time of the pandemic, longing for the opportunity to take an active part in culture, she established a miniature ArtKo Gallery – located in a dollhouse. The artist presents there miniature reproductions of well-known paintings made by herself. A small space with great potential, due to its not entirely serious form, disenchants the inaccessibility and dignity of places presenting art.