Artist: ANNA JESINOWICZ-NGUYEN
Country: POLAND
Title: Petra
Size: 53 x 39 cm
Technique: Gobelin tapestry, 80% of linen, 20% of wool
Year: 2014
Biography:

Anna Jesionowicz-Nguyen was born in 1956 in Głogów, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Art Conservation and Restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1980. Since 1999 she collaborates with the “Na Jatkach” Gallery in Wrocław. She designs artistic textile, uses her own designs, copies the masters of Gobelin tapestry and creates portraits using Gobelin tapestry technique and embroidery technique. She has participated in group exhibitions and solo exhibitions such as: the “Poezja i sploty” exhibition in Wrocław in 2004; the “Sploty duszy” exhibition in Jelenia Góra, Poland and Chojnów, Poland in 2007; “Lemberg…” permanent exhibition at Sala Ślubów in Lwówek Śląski, Poland in 2007; the “Gobeliny ocalone od zapomnienia” exhibition in Wrocław in 2010; the “Z pamiętnika Penelopy” exhibition in Wrocław in 2012; the “Tkanina artystyczna” exhibition in Jastrzębie Zdrój, Poland in 2012. Recently she has participated in many group exhibitions, such as: the “ALE tkanina” exhibition in the Centre of Weaving Traditions in Prudnik in 2013; the “Praca kobiety nigdy się nie kończy” exhibition in the International Cultural Centre in Cracow and in Pomerenian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin in 2013; the “XL lat Sztuki Włókna w Kowarach i na Dolnym Śląsku 1974-2014” jubilee exhibition in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź in 2014.

Motto: Rozpad cząstek we mnie ku scaleniu zmierza