CAMILLA LUNDBLAD ILIEFSKI embarked on her design journey in 1998, following her graduation from the School of Design and Crafts at Göteborg University, where she now shares her expertise as a dedicated educator. For nearly thirty years, Iliefski has been an active force in the design community, both independently and collaboratively. Her versatile practice spans various domains within design and crafts, reflecting her profound interest in the symbiotic relationship between process and material. Since 2010, she has honed her focus on perfecting the hand-tufting technique, channeling her mastery into creating visually captivating and tactilely engaging works.
Iliefski holds a master’s degree in visual communication, earned in 1998 from the School of Design and Crafts at Göteborg University (HDK-VALAND). Since 2006, she has served as a Senior Lecturer in Design at her alma mater, nurturing the next generation of creative minds with her wealth of knowledge and experience.
If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make.
Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.
Mentorship and curiosity, when balanced in equal measure, reveal the precious alchemy of a curator. And it is the duty of the mature curator to discern and detect, to cultivate change, and from there to pioneer, and to share. Innovation is never static, and the Present is already the Future. Fresh dialogs evolve, energies to be nurtured, opportunities to be guided. Renewed and re-orientated, Patrick’s decision to exchange his bricks-and-mortar Tribeca gallery for a new interactive Brooklyn space aligns him towards a new inquisitive future as supportive benefactor, interlocutor and mentor to a fresh yield of talented creators — those established and those rising — and the quest for discovery rejuvenates.
— Simon Andrews
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