Malgorzata Dajewska, Sandy Forest
Colored glass, welded, ground, polished.
Work signed,
Dimensions: 28 x 15 x 9 cm
UNIQUE
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Małgorzata Dajewska (born 1958 in Sosnowiec). She studied at the Glass Department of the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Wroclaw (now the Academy of Fine Arts), where she had the opportunity to gain professional training under the guidance of such prominent artists as Zbigniew Horbowy and Jerzy Chodurski. Among other things, she creates her works from optical glass, and she is the first artist who began to use this material in her work, thus setting a trend in Wroclaw glass of the 1980s. She deals with cold-shaped objects, gluing different types of glass, and often dressing her works with engraving, including, characteristically, engraved texts of her own making. She is a researcher at her alma mater, where she received the title of full professor in 2001. She runs an art glass studio.
In 2012, she was awarded the "Meritorious for Polish Culture" badge by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2013, she received the Gloria Artis Silver Medal, also from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
"If we didn't know that Malgorzata Dajewska creates sculptures from glass we could consider that she juxtaposes gusts of clear air, which she gently colors with the colors of nature.... Art made by her seems like a gift of joyful heaven to happy people" (Maciej Lagiewski).
