My Bio

Gabi V Lorincz is one of those textile artists who are not only designers but create their works of textile by hand. She studied several fabrication methods in her early school years like embroidery, batik works, macrame, planking, weaving. She's won a media studies scholarship to get better aquintad with animation. Since that time both textile and animation became part of her artistic life. She started to experiment with the traditional textile way, abandoning planar technique to reach plasticity with looping and knotting. The Jury of Dombovar Amateur Film Festival rewarded her with a shared a special awards for a short animated film. Her innovative ventures in textile studies have continued during the college years. The Finnish Study Year took effect to on her textile technique. She was just 25 years old when she was asked to create two large-scale textiles for public buildings in Helsinki. After the homecoming from Helsinki she is full of free creative attitude and her new works affect her contemporaries as well. With the special Riyjy Akvarel Paintings she won the Grand Award of Diosy-Nagyajtai Foundation. She introduced Riyjy technique to the Hungarian contemporary art of textile. Through her creations she answers the challenge of modern interior decoration. In her carpets, tapestries, textile matters and also in her paintings and art works, she creates a special visual world by using bright colors, contrasts or delicate color graduations.

'By the world of textile, taking photographs is part of her life, too. She is watching the nature through a textile artist's eyes that appears in her photo series to show the world another face. Mostly these photographs help her create a new textile. During her study of art in the high school years she made a traditional three minutes long animation, and nowdays the passion of the animation is getting stronger in her.'

Teaching is a very important part of Gabi’s work. She is aspiring to endear the textile profession to her students and she is dealing with the talents, too. Gabi has been teaching in school for ten years, where she created her uniqe educational program. Her students participated in several exhibitions, competitions and their creations were in such textile markets. She was invited to hold lectures about her special textile method in universities and in workshops of art.