We would like to invite you to another lecture in the series of the Bydgoszcz Academy of Art, hosted by Karolina Bandziak-Kwiatkowska, which will be devoted to Elżbieta Piwek-Białoborska.
Elżbieta Piwek-Białoborska – artist, designer of functional forms of Włocławek faïence, individual artist. Born in 1922 in Koźmin Wielkopolski, died in 1989 in Włocławek. In 1953, she obtained her diploma from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Wrocław. The same year, she moved to Włocławek and was employed in the Pattern Shop of the Włocławek faïence factory as a ceramics designer.
Elżbieta Piwek-Białoborska is the author of more than 100 designs for functional forms of Włocławek faïence. In the course of her work, she conducted research and experimented with glazes. As a result, she developed an innovative decoration in the mid-1950s called “Kora,” consisting of relief decoration of the body with coloured glazes.
In addition, she was responsible for supervising the so-called folk paint shop at the Włocławek faïence factory (worker painters designed and painted floral patterns on Włocławek faïence). She designed both floral patterns and designs on so-called modern faïence (1952-1965). In addition to her design and teaching work, she arranged exhibitions of Włocławek faïence and designed many works of so-called unique ceramics.
Karolina Bandziak-Kwiatkowska – museologist, curator of the collection of the Faïence Department at the Kujawska and Dobrzyńska Land Museum in Włocławek, monument expert, conservator of metal monuments. Graduate of Historic and Conservation Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Toruń and of Postgraduate Studies in Metal Monuments Conservation at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Toruń. Curator of exhibitions presenting Włocławek and Polish ceramics created between the mid-19th century and 1939. Author of popular science and catalogue publications on, among others, Włocławek and Polish ceramics.
22.05.2024, 6pm
Gdańska 20
