visual artist and designer
About
Edina Széles is a textile artist and designer based in the Shetland Islands Scotland. She has exhibited and participated residences both nationally and internationally.
Her work inspired by the environment both natural and built and its combination with its material culture contemporary and historical. In her processes, she experiments with a variety of media and techniques from drawing, painting and sculpture.
Her practice primarily is concerned with constructed textiles and traditional textile techniques such as weaving, hand spinning and dyeing. She researches traditional textiles techniques and their heritage and incorporates these within her contemporary artwork.
Széles is a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Contemporary Textiles and BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Shetland College, and Program Leader of the NC Portfolio Course.
Széles graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest with a Masters of Arts in Textile Design and in Teaching of Design and Visual Communication.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022:
• Casting on-Shetland Wool Week'22, Shetland Musem and Archive
2019:
• Textile Stories, Icelandic Textile Center, Textilmidstod, Blönduós
2012:
• 4th Triennial of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
• Pattern-Féte, Aranytiz Culture Center, Budapest Hungary
2011:
• Hiding Pattern, Foundation of Hungarian Culture, Budapest Hungary
• Pattern-Strips, Aranytiz Culture Center, Budapest Hungary
• „Händedruck (Handshake) - German-Hungarian Art and Design exhibition, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010:
• „Überbrücken” ( Bridge Over) German-Hungarian Art and Design exhibition, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Pattern –Motivations, Dance Theater Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• Pattern – Design, MKVM Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• Miskolc 800, ArtFlag Exhibition, Miskolc, Hungary
2007:
• FISE Gallery, Textile Designers’ Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
2006:
• Exhibition of State Scholarship Holders, Budapest, Hungary
• 2nd Triennal of Textile Art, Szombathely, Hungary
2005:
• „Flags” , Miskolc, Hungary
2003:
• 7th Flag Festival, Eppingen, Germany
• Pattern – Ramblings++, Goldberger Textile Collection, Budapest Hungary
2002:
• Trend & Design, Textile Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2001:
• Kozma Scholarship Holders Exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2000:
• FISE Gallery, Budapest
• Textile Exhibiton, Hungarian Festival, Chemnitz,Klaffenbach, Germany
1999:
• Péter-Pál Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary
• Pattern Exhibition, Palace of Art, Budapest, Hungary
1993,1996:
• Hungarian House, Paris
