The Dream Seller

Author

Tomasz Głowacz

Born on 14 February 1981 in Tuchów. He graduated from the Ludwig van Beethoven State Secondary School of Visual Arts of  Artur Grottger in Tarnów and the Secondary Art School in Tarnów, specialising in furniture and woodcarving restoration. In 2003, he began his studies at the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Monuments at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2009, he obtained his Master of Arts degree from the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow—diploma in the Studio of Sculpture Techniques and Technologies under the direction of Roman Jacek Kieferling, MA. In 2009, he received the Mayor of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski Award for Best Diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He graduated from the Pedagogical College at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under the direction of Prof. Adam Brincken. From 2011 to 2020, I was a furniture and architectural element restoration teacher at the Secondary Art School in Tarnów. Since 2021, he has been a conservator of museum collections at the Tarnów Regional Museum. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Tarnów Cultural Society and the Association of Tarnów Visual Artists. He is involved in conservation and painting. He runs the Alkazar Conservation of Works of Art studio, where he and his team have carried out several conservation projects. He practises easel painting, which he encapsulates into an extensive series. In 2020, he received an art scholarship from the City of Tarnów in the field of visual arts for a series of works entitled Mountains – Abstraction.

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