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Ludwika Ulatowska McClafferty |
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Was born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, studying art at Warsaw University
and in Rajastan, India. It is within the field of civil design and
construction projects, working with glass and various metals, that
she established her reputation internationally as one of the foremost
exponents of this artform |
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In 1981 she turned to
decorative glass as a medium with permanent pieces being installed internationally.
In the U.K works that can be seen include: The Rose window at Alexandria
Palace, panels in the Great Hall, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge,
bronze and glass for the Egyptian Hall at Harrods (now with English Heritage
Preservation Order), and additionally the fused, sculpted lamps and Pharoah
heads in the escalator hall at Harrods. A panel at the Museum of Stained
Glass at Ely Cathedral, a. large glass wall at Linford- Bridgeman Museum
in Lichfeild and large sand blasted panels for Princess Square, (Glasgow)
and Monument Mall, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) shopping centres. |
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McClafferty's commissions include massive works, such as the Rose Windows
at Alexandra Place in London, which is 10 metres in diameter. On this
work, she pioneered a combination of solar reflective glass and coloured
antique and iridecescent glass within an original Victorian frame.
As well as completing
:this impressive range of public art Maria has also produced innumerable
private commissions including work for Liberty, the Duke of Wellington,
A.S.Byatt, and other prestigious clients.
Her work has featured
in trade and consumer publications world wide and in the U.K including;
The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, House and Garden, World of Interiors,
Expression magazine and the Caribbean Island Life. Maria has also been
interviewed for the BBC World Service, by M.B.C for satellite broadcast
and by Grenadian Television.
Currently, Maria is
working in the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada where apart from
pioneering strategies and developing new expression through a more intimate
manipulation of the glass for the contemporary art glass she has been
able to work in the most cherished ancient art of stained glass producing
monumental stained glass windows for the local cathedral and churches.
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