about
ILdiko Nagy is a Hungarian born, UK based interdisciplinary artist working with a focus on nature, creative self-expression and sustainability. Her practice has ranged broadly over the years, through illustration, painting and sculpture to functional interior, graphic and furniture design, certain mediums and methods became more frequent and important such as willow weaving, welding and up-cycling.
She has been working throughout the Midlands, designing and leading an array of art and craft projects with community groups and schools. With her Hungarian heritage, she feels passionate about preserving ancient crafts, such as willow weaving, felt-making and needle-crafts, always exploring new territories of visual arts.
Over the years, ILdikó has built a substantial body of original work. With five solo exhibitions in the UK and Hungary, ILdikó is now a well-established visual artist whose work excites and inspires her ever-growing art-loving audience. Her creative flare, passion for art, and her love of life clearly echo through every piece she creates.
ILdikó is a versatile and adaptive artist with a natural impulse to recreate her peculiar inner world into tangible objects for fun, commissions, public spaces, festivals and home interiors alike.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Common Ground Project - Mac Birmingham - Embracing a colourful world
2021 - Moseley - old Boots window - organized by Moseley Exchange - /16 pictures/
2019 - Tutors Exhibition - @MAC, Birmingham, UK - ‘Jefferson’ Willow Hare Sculpture
2018 - Door to the City - @Medicine Bakery & Gallery, Birmingham - 2 sides of a door
2017 - Group Exhibition @13 Temple Street, Birmingham Pop-up Gallery. /13 pictures/
2017 - Wirksworth Festival /willow basketry, sculptures & hanging chairs/
2017 - Atlow, UK - Outdoor exhibition /paintings, hanging chairs & willow sculptures/
2013 - 'The Clearance Show' - @ The Old Print Works, Birmingham, UK - /59 pictures/
2010 - Group Exhibition - @Moseley Exchange, Birmingham, UK - /5 pictures/
2010 - 'Hungry 4 Colours?' - @ The Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK - /44 pictures/
2007 - 'Szupralux II' - in Bekescsaba, Hungary - /18 pictures/
2006 - 'Szupralux' - in Szeged, Hungary - /10 pictures/
2004 - 'The Life of the Purple Goop' - in Szeged, Hungary - /40 pictures/
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
MA - Visual Communication - University of Pecs, HU, 2006
QTS - Art & Design - GTC UK, 2008
Interior Designer - Szeged, HU, 2003
Children's Dictionary 2012 - Illustrations of Children's Dictionaries published by Grimm, Szeged, Hungary
Memory Game 2010 - Illustrations of Memory Games (3) published by Grimm, Szeged, Hungary
Some of the organisations that ILdikó has worked with include:
National Trust, Coventry Bid, Number 11 Arts, BEP, Birmingham MAC, ArtWorks Hall Green, The Hive JQ, BOSF, Creative Health CIC, Life with Art and The Old Print Works.
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