Ilona ZIDARICS

1952, Pécs

metalwork artist
www.zidaricsilona.hupont.hu 
She graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts in 1976 as a goldand silversmith, her masters were József Engelsz and Géza Kertész. Based on a scale plaster model, she creates bronze cast plastic art, and produces body jewellery using silver and copper braided elements. In 1976 she received the Silver Javelin Award and in 2006 the Noémi Ferenczy Award. In 2011 she won 1st prize at the Biennial of Goldsmith Art. She twice received grants from the National Cultural Fund. One of her works is included in the collection of the Kecskemét Picture Gallery.