CAMILLA ILIEFSKI

Camilla Iliefski (1970, lives and works in Göteborg, Sweden) has a Master's degree in Visual Communication from the School of Design and Crafts in Göteborg, where she has been a senior lecturer since 2006. She has received several Swedish Art Grants and her work has been shown regularly in solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. Her works are in the collections of Röhsska Museum, Västra Götalandsregionen, Region Sörmland and Norrköpings Konstmuseum, as well as in various private collections.

Moved by a desire for more materiality and to work with the body, Camilla Iliefski decided about fifteen years ago to combine her graphic production with textile works made using the hand-tufting technique. The quality of the materials is essential to the artist, who has a preference for natural fibres, especially wool and linen. But the real passion and driving force behind her formal research is colour. By combining different materials and colours with each other and using up to five threads at the same time, she achieves gradients of colour and contrasting hues that form vibrant abstract compositions full of life. She loves to blend colours together and experiment with unusual chromatic combinations. This lends a painterly dimension to her work, which not surprisingly draws inspiration from modernist painting and the colour sensitivity of artists such as Paul Klee and Pierre Bonnard.

Camilla Iliefski's artistic practice is intuitive and process-based. She knows in which direction she wants to go, but does not have a precise idea in mind. She is guided by what the materials and colours suggest to her and is not afraid of slow and painstaking work. In the extremely dynamic landscape of contemporary textile art, her creations stand out for their soft shapes and subtle chromatism.