Prof.Margaret Dajewska (b.1958), Meeting in the sunshine, unique, 2021

Professor Malgorzata Dajewska

She was born on 30.09.1958 in Sosnowiec. She is the zodiacal Libra.

In her hometown, she attended elementary school while simultaneously attending a first degree music school, from which she graduated in the violin class. She continued her education at the Emilia Plater High School, also in Sosnowiec.

From 1977 to 1982 she studied at the Department of Glass at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Wroclaw, where she had the opportunity to gain professional "training" from such prominent Polish glass artists as Henryk Wilkowski, Ludwik Kiczura, Zbigniew Horbowy and Jerzy Chodurski. She completed her diploma under the direction of Professor Zbigniew Horbowy. Since 1984, she has been a researcher at the Department of Glass. From 1996 to 2002 she held the position of head of the Department of Glass. In 2001 she was awarded the title of full professor. In 2005- 2008 she held the position of dean of the Department of Ceramics and Glass. She currently heads the Artistic Glass Studio in the Department of Glass, which is a continuation of the studio once headed by her master-professor Zbigniew Horbowy, and again held the position of Dean of her alma mater during the 2012-2016 term.

In 1995, she received 1st prize in the " Polish Glass'95" competition. In 1996, at the Poznań International Fair, a utility set of her design called " Aquarius" was awarded a gold medal. All manufactured elements of this set were patented. Also in 1996, a glass object of her design entitled " Aquarius. " The bawdy toe of the Evil Wizard" was presented by the authorities of Wroclaw to Tadeusz Różewicz for his 75th birthday. In 2003, she was honored with one of the parallel 10 awards at the competition exhibition " Glass -c.d." in Wroclaw.

She is a laureate of the prestigious Cultural Award of the Silesia Region of Lower Saxony in 2006. In 2009 she received the Award of the Minister of Culture and Art for her artistic achievements. 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. In2016 she was honored with the City of Sosnowiec Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. In 2018, she received an honorary medal of "Merit for the City of Wroclaw" from the hands of the new mayor of the city, Robert Sutryk. In 2019, she was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal.

During her work at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Rector's 1st Degree Award 7 times and the Rector's Special Award. At the request of the municipal authorities of Sosnowiec, she made a gift from the city to the Holy Father John Paul II - a glass sculpture entitled "Torn Pine". She is also the author of the statuette "Golden Academic Laurel", which was given to John Paul II by the College of Rectors of Lower Silesia . Both sculptures went to the Vatican Museum.

In 2011, the same body commissioned another " Golden Academic Laurel" from her, a new variant of which was placed in the hands of Pope Benedict X VII on November 24, 2012.

In 2013, the councilors of the City of Wroclaw commissioned a sculpture from her, which was presented to the city's honorary citizen - then Minister of K and Dz N - Bogdan Zdrojewski. In 2017, commissioned by the Solidarity of Lower Silesia, she made the Relic of the Blood of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, placed in the Wroclaw Cathedral. She has participated in about 200 collective exhibitions at home and abroad and had 25 solo exhibitions - also at home and abroad.

In her work, she deals with objects shaped by the "cold" method and by welding in an electric furnace, gluing individual elements from optical glass, color-welded glass, often with engraving and her own texts written by engraving on the surface of the glass. This can be called "own technique". The works usually have intentional overtones.